tezgjah

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تزگاه (tezgâh, “workbench”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tezˈɟah/
• Rhymes: -ah

Noun

tezgjah m (plural tezgjahë, definite tezgjahu, definite plural tezgjahët)

1. loom (either manual or mechanised)

   Synonyms: vegjë, avlëmend

2. large anvil

   Synonym: kudhër

3. carpenter's or jacketmaker's workbench
4. (regional) A bottle-like wooden container filled in which roasted coffee beans are kept.
5. A pick made of cherry tree bark used to play the çiftelia.

Derived terms

• tezgjahiste

 

References

• “tezgjáh,~u”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1991b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “tezgjah”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 480
• Meyer, G. (1891) “tezǵáh”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 429