sahatçi

Albanian

Alternative forms

• sahaçi, sahatxhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ساعتجی (saʼatci). By surface analysis, sahat +‎ -xhi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saha(t)ˈt͡ʃi/
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

sahatçi m (plural sahatçinj, definite sahatçiu, definite plural sahatçinjtë)

1. (colloquial, dialectal, dated) clockmaker, watchmaker

   Synonyms: orëndreqës, orëtar

Declension

Declension of sahatçi

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	sahatçi	sahatçinj	sahatçiu	sahatçinjtë
accusative			sahatçiun
dative	sahatçiu	sahatçinjve	sahatçiut	sahatçinjve
ablative		sahatçinjsh

Derived terms

• sahatçillëk

 

References

• “sahatçí,~u”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1727b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “sahatçi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 403
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “sahát […] -xhi”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 445a
• Leotti, Angelo (1916) “sahatshí-a”, in L'albanese parlato (in Italian), Milan: U. Hoepli, page 153
• Weigand, Gustav (1914) “sahát-i […] -tshí-a”, in Albanesisch–deutsches und deutsch–albanesisches Wörterbuch (in German), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, page 76b
• Jungg, G. (1895) “sahatcii”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 122b
• Rossi, F. (1875) “sahatcìi”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 1116b