shtrat

Albanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

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

Derived terms

Compounds
  • shtratgjerë

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”)

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “shtrat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 441
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