tezgjah

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تزگاه (tezgâh, “workbench”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tezˈɟah/
  • Rhymes: -ah

Noun

tezgjah m (plural tezgjahë, definite tezgjahu, definite plural tezgjahët)

  1. loom (either manual or mechanised)
    Synonyms: vegjë, avlëmend
  2. large anvil
    Synonym: kudhër
  3. carpenter's or jacketmaker's workbench
  4. (regional) A bottle-like wooden container filled in which roasted coffee beans are kept.
  5. A pick made of cherry tree bark used to play the çiftelia.

Declension

Declension of tezgjah
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tezgjah tezgjahu tezgjahë tezgjahët
accusative tezgjahun
dative tezgjahu tezgjahut tezgjahëve tezgjahëve
ablative tezgjahësh

Derived terms

  • tezgjahiste

References

  • “tezgjáh,~u”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 1991b
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “tezgjah”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 480
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “tezǵáh”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 429
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