plaçkë

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from South Slavic, compare Bulgarian пля́чка (pljáčka), Serbo-Croatian pljȁčkaпља̏чка.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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plaçkë f (plural plaçka)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) item of household goods and furniture
    Synonym: tesha pl
  2. piece of cloth, fabric used to make clothes
    Synonyms: stof, cohë, pëlhurë
  3. dress, garment made of fabric; robe
    Synonym: veshje
  4. loot, plunder, booty
    Synonym: pre
    plaçka e luftësspoils of war
  5. (colloquial) whatshisname, thingamabob (person of thing the speaker does not remember the name of)
  6. chip, sliver; speck, bit
    Synonyms: ashkël, grimcë, lëmishte
  7. weed (unwanted plant); briar, thorn
    Synonyms: barishte; ferrë, drizë
  8. (colloquial) entrails, guts
    Synonyms: rropulli, përbrendshme

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: πλιάτσικο (pliátsiko)
  • Ottoman Turkish: پلاچقه (plaçka)

References

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  • “pláçk/ë~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1495a
  • Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “plaçkë”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎[2], volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 195a
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “plaçkë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 389b
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “pľakós”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 334