kafaz

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Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قفص (kafes) (Turkish kafes), from Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

kafaz m (plural kafaze, definite kafazi, definite plural kafazet)

  1. cage
  2. pen (enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle)

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References

  1. ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “kafaz”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 688