kacaturrë

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • kacatur m, kacaturre f, kasaturrë f — dialectal
  • kacaturr f — Gheg

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قصاتوره (kasatura). Possibly contaminated by kaca- and turrë.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kat͡saˈturə/
  • Rhymes: -urə

Noun

kacaturrë f (plural kacaturra) (archaic)

  1. a kind of double-edged dagger
    Near-synonym: kamë
  2. bayonet
    Synonyms: bajonetë, syngji

References
  • “kacatúrr/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 755a
  • Krimpas, P. G. (2021) “On the Modern Greek Origin of the Albanian KACA-prefixoids”, in Porta Balkanica, →ISSN, page 9
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “kacatúr”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 172a
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