shtrat

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin strātum.[1][2] Compare Romanian strat.

Pronunciation

  • (Tosk) IPA(key): /ʃtɾat/

Noun

shtrat m (plural shtretër, definite shtrati, definite plural shtretërit)

  1. bed
  2. bedstead, bed of a cart or wagon, riverbed, seedbed, hotbed, bed of termites
  3. layer, stratum
  4. base, pad, supporting platform, especially for a watchman, fisherman, or gun
  5. arbor-like frame for supporting vine plants or drying tobacco
  6. (botany) receptacle for the floral organs on a flower stalk
  7. gelatinous layer of microorganisms that forms in vinegar
  8. (medicine) scab
  9. (anatomy) placenta
  10. (figurative, colloquial) conjugal relation, man and wife

Declension

Declension of shtrat
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative shtrat shtrati shtretër shtretërit
accusative shtratin
dative shtrati shtratit shtretërve shtretërve
ablative shtretërsh

Synonyms

  • (bed for sleeping): krevat
  • (seedbed): farishtë
  • (riverbed): taban
  • (placenta): makrosë, makth, shtrak

Hyponyms

  • shtrat bore (“layer of snow”)
  • shtrat i fëmijës (“placenta”)
  • shtrat i ftohtë (“forcing frame, cold frame”)
  • shtrat i ngrohtë (“hotbed”)
  • shtrat i nxehtë (“hotbed”)
  • shtrat i pjellës (“amnion, caul”)
  • shtrat i qelbit (“thick part of pus”)
  • shtrat i qerres (“bed of cart or wagon”)
  • shtrat i vdekjes (“deathbed”)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shtrat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 441
  2. ^ Bonnet, Guillaume (1999) Les mots latins de l’albanais (Sémantiques) (in French), Paris: L’Harmattan, →ISBN, pages 44, 215
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