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]‎^[1] (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 [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 400