tarabë
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Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dialectal Turkish taraba (“wooden fence; shop-front shutter”), itself from North Levantine Arabic دَرَّابَة (darrābe, “a kind of shop-front shutter”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tarabë f (plural taraba, definite taraba, definite plural tarabat)
- wooden shutter (for stores or houses)
- Synonym: qepen
- wooden wall as part of a military assault course
Declension
[edit]Declension of tarabë
References
[edit]- “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