tarabë

Albanian

Etymology

From dialectal Turkish taraba (“wooden fence; shop-front shutter”), itself from North Levantine Arabic دَرَّابَة (darrābe, “a kind of shop-front shutter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈɾabə/
• Rhymes: -abə

Noun

tarabë f (plural taraba, definite taraba, definite plural tarabat)

1. wooden shutter (for stores or houses)

   Synonym: qepen

2. wooden wall as part of a military assault course

Declension

Declension of tarabë

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	tarabë	taraba	taraba	tarabat
accusative			tarabën
dative	tarabe	tarabave	tarabës	tarabavet
ablative		tarabash

References

• “tarabë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “tarabë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “taraba”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 461