shtrat

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin strātum.[1][2] Compare Romanian strat.

Pronunciation
  • (Tosk) IPA(key): /ʃtɾat/

Noun

shtrat m (plural shtretër, definite shtrati, definite plural shtretërit)

  1. bed
  2. bedstead, bed of a cart or wagon, riverbed, seedbed, hotbed, bed of termites
  3. layer, stratum
  4. base, pad, supporting platform, especially for a watchman, fisherman, or gun
  5. arbor-like frame for supporting vine plants or drying tobacco
  6. (botany) receptacle for the floral organs on a flower stalk
  7. gelatinous layer of microorganisms that forms in vinegar
  8. (medicine) scab
  9. (anatomy) placenta
  10. (figurative, colloquial) conjugal relation, man and wife

Synonyms
  • (bed for sleeping): krevat
  • (seedbed): farishtë
  • (riverbed): taban
  • (placenta): makrosë, makth, shtrak

Hyponyms
hyponyms
  • shtrat bore (“layer of snow”)
  • shtrat i fëmijës (“placenta”)
  • shtrat i ftohtë (“forcing frame, cold frame”)
  • shtrat i ngrohtë (“hotbed”)
  • shtrat i nxehtë (“hotbed”)
  • shtrat i pjellës (“amnion, caul”)
  • shtrat i qelbit (“thick part of pus”)
  • shtrat i qerres (“bed of cart or wagon”)
  • shtrat i vdekjes (“deathbed”)

Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shtrat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 441
  2. Bonnet, Guillaume (1999) Les mots latins de l’albanais (Sémantiques) (in French), Paris: L’Harmattan, →ISBN, pages 44, 215
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