çyryk

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چوروك (çürük, “rotten, spoilt”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃyˈɾyk/
  • Rhymes: -yk
  • Hyphenation: çy‧rýk

Adjective

çyryk (feminine çyryke) (colloquial)

  1. (also noun) screwball, foolish, scatterbrained
  2. rotten, spoiled

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çyryk”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 118

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • “çyryk”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “çyryk”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 118
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