karafil

Albanian

Alternative forms

• karajfil — Gheg
• karafjil, karafile — Tosk
• karanfil, karafill — nonstandard

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قرنفل (karanfil), from Arabic قَرَنْفُل (qaranful).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾaˈfil/
• Rhymes: -il
• Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧fíl

Noun

karafil m (plural karafíla, definite karafíli, definite plural karafílat)

1. (botany) carnation, pink (Dianthus caryophyllus)
2. (botany) clove (Syzygium aromaticum)
3. (obsolete) flintlock gun

Declension

Declension of karafil

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	karafil	karafili	karafila	karafilat
accusative		karafilin
dative	karafili	karafilit	karafilave	karafilave
ablative			karafilash

Derived terms

• lafshë karafilit (“cockscomb”)

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• “karafil”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006