zarar

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ضرر (zarar).

• IPA^(key): /zaˈɾaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

zarar m (plural zarare, definite zarari, definite plural zararet) (colloquial)

1. damage, harm

   Synonyms: dëm, prishje

   pa zarar ― harmless

   me zarar ― harmful

   s'bëj zarar ― to do no harm

2. loss

   Synonym: humbje

• “zarár,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 2210a
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “zarar”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 525
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “zar […] -ar”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 574a
• Meyer, G. (1891) “zarár”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 481

From Ottoman Turkish ضرر (zarar), ultimately from Arabic ضَرَر (ḍarar).

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zarar (definite accusative zararı, plural zararlar)

1. damage, harm

   Synonym: dokunca

• zararlı
• zararsız

• muzır

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zarar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Ultimately from Arabic ضَرَر (ḍarar).

zarar (plural zararlar)

1. damage

• zararli
• zararsiz