carrok

Albanian

Alternative forms

• carók, carrue, carrua

Etymology

From an earlier *car. Related to carac, acar, crak, carangth, carbë, and ther. The related adjective caruk (“naked”) indicates that the original meaning was skin, later switching to a more abstract meaning of lad, boy, similar to cull (“child;naked”) which still has both meanings.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡saˈrɔk]

Noun

carrók m (plural carrokë, definite carroku, definite plural carrokët, female equivalent carroke)

1. lad, boy

   Synonyms: vocërrak, camërdhok, callok, vogëlush

2. (regional) piglet (in Northern Gheg)

   Synonyms: dirk, thi

3. (regional) 7-year old or younger child (in Mirdita region)

Declension

Declension of carrok

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	carrok	carroku	carrokë	carrokët
accusative		carrokun
dative	carroku	carrokut	carrokëve	carrokëve
ablative			carrokësh

Related terms

• caruk
• ther
• carac

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• “carrok”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “carrok”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]