sharkë

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃaɾ.kə/

Etymology 1

Either from Proto-Germanic *sarkiz (shirt, armour, hauberk), via Gothic or from Proto-Slavic *sorka (shirt). Schuhard and Meyer claim a borrowing from either Latin serica or Latin sarica.[1]

Noun

sharkë f

  1. female gown (made of wool, covering the shoulders and the chest)
  2. a black spottet sheep

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

sharkë f

  1. (archaic) lyre

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “sharkë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 408