bardhak

• IPA^(key): /baɾˈðak/
• Rhymes: -ak

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بارداق (bardak), altered by conflation with the unrelated bardhak (“fair-haired”).

bardhak m (plural bardhakë)

1. glass (usually large and thick)

   Synonyms: qelq, gotë

2. shot glass
3. earthenware jug, decanter

   Synonym: ibrik

• bardak — dialectal

• “bardhák,~u”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980, page 101a
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bardak”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 64
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “bardhak”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 20b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “barδák”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 27

From i bardhë (“white”) +‎ -ak.

bardhak (feminine bardhake)

1. Synonym of bardhosh

• “bardhák,~e”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2], 1980, page 101a