sharapoll

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • sharapof (dialectal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شرانپول‎ (şaranpol, “stockade”). For the variant sharapof compare Ottoman Turkish շարամփօվ (şarampov), Serbo-Croatian šaràmpōv／шара̀мпо̄в.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃaɾaˈpoɫ/
  • Rhymes: -oɫ

Noun

sharapoll m (plural sharapolle)

  1. oriel used for defence
  2. watchtower
    Synonym: kullë roje
  3. (archaic) fortification (in general)
    Synonym: fortifikatë

References
  • “sharapóll,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 1818b
  • Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “sharapoll”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 442
  • Mann, S. E. (1948), “shar […] -apoll”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 468b
  • Meyer, G. (1891), “šarapół”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 400
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