çakall

Albanian

Alternative forms

• çakan
• çikall

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چقال (çakal), from Persian شغال (šağâl), ultimately from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃaˈkaɫ/

Noun

çakall m (plural çakaj, definite çakalli, definite plural çakajt)

1. (zoology) jackal
2. (figurative, derogatory) rogue, scoundrel; blood-sucking or insatiable man
3. (Tosk) dragon

Declension

Declension of çakall

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	çakall	çakaj	çakalli	çakajt
accusative			çakallin
dative	çakalli	çakajve	çakallit	çakajvet
ablative		çakajsh

References

• “çakall”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çakall”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 98
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “çakáll”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 54