çerekçi

Albanian

Etymology

By surface analysis, çerek (“coin of little value”) +‎ -çi. Possibly borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چیركجی (çeyrekçi),[1] although that is only attested in the sense “pedlar of butcher's meat”,[2] and may hence be an Albanian formation.

Noun

çerekçi m (plural çerekçinj, definite çerekçiu)

  1. (archaic) poor artisan, or a poor person in general
    Hypernym: zanatçi

Declension

Declension of çerekçi
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative çerekçi çerekçiu çerekçinj çerekçinjtë
accusative çerekçiun
dative çerekçiu çerekçiut çerekçinjve çerekçinjve
ablative çerekçinjsh

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çerekçi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 108
  2. ^ Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çeyrekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 950

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 255
  • Jungg, G. (1895) “cerekcii”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 17
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