shtrat

Albanian

Etymology

From shtrij (“lay down, stretch out”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *śtrin-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sterh3-, *streh3- (“to spread, scatter, bring down”). Related to rashë (“I felt”) and shtroj (“spread, lay down”) (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *śt(a)rē-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread, scatter, floar”). Cognate to Old Church Slavonic прострѣти (prostrěti, “to spread”)). According to Orel, instead borrowed from Latin strātum. Compare Romanian strat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtɾat/

Noun

shtrat m (plural shtretër, definite shtrati, definite plural shtretërit)

1. bed
2. bedstead, bed of a cart or wagon, riverbed, seedbed, hotbed, bed of termites
3. layer, stratum
4. base, pad, supporting platform, especially for a watchman, fisherman, or gun
5. arbor-like frame for supporting vine plants or drying tobacco
6. (botany) receptacle for the floral organs on a flower stalk
7. gelatinous layer of microorganisms that forms in vinegar
8. (medicine) scab
9. (anatomy) placenta
10. (figurative, colloquial) conjugal relation, man and wife

Synonyms

• (bed for sleeping): krevat
• (seedbed): farishtë
• (riverbed): taban
• (placenta): makrosë, makth, shtrak

Derived terms

• shtrak
• shtratëzon
• shtratim
• shtratore
• shtrazë
• shtreth

 

Compounds

• shtratgjerë

Hyponyms

hyponyms

• shtrat bore (“layer of snow”)
• shtrat i fëmijës (“placenta”)
• shtrat i ftohtë (“forcing frame, cold frame”)
• shtrat i ngrohtë (“hotbed”)
• shtrat i nxehtë (“hotbed”)
• shtrat i pjellës (“amnion, caul”)
• shtrat i qelbit (“thick part of pus”)
• shtrat i qerres (“bed of cart or wagon”)
• shtrat i vdekjes (“deathbed”)