gjerdek

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish گردك (gerdek).[1][2][3]

Noun

gjerdek m

  1. bridechamber
  2. wedding night

Descendants

  • → Romani: džerdéci — Pan-Vlax

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “gjerdek”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 172
  2. ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “džerdéci”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 83
  3. ^ Franz Ritter von Miklosich (1884) Die türkischen Elemente in den südost- und osteuropäischen Sprachen (in German), page 13: “alb. gjerdek”

Further reading

  • “gjerdek”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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