karabatak

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قره باتاق (kara batak, “cormorant”).

• IPA^(key): /kaɾabaˈtak/
• Rhymes: -ak

karabatak m (archaic)

1. grebe, dabchick

   Synonyms: zhytës, kredharak

• Meyer, G. (1891) “kará”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 176f.
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*karabatak”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 250

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قره باتاق (kara batak). By surface analysis, kara (“black”) +‎ batak (“swamp”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾa.ba.tak/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧ba‧tak

karabatak (definite accusative karabatağı, plural karabataklar)

1. (zoology) cormorant (bird of the genus Phalacrocorax)
2. (colloquial) someone who does not repay their debts

• “karabatak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karabatak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2413b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karabatak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “karabatak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı