jastëk

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یاصتیق‎ (yastık), یاصدق‎ (yasdıq, “pillow”), from earlier yastuq < *yaztuq, from Proto-Turkic *yạŕtuk (“pillow”). Compare Karakhanid يَسْتُقْ‎ (yastuq, “pillow”), Azerbaijani yastıq (“pillow”), Kazakh жастық (jastıq, “pillow”), Chuvash ҫытар (śytar, “pillow”), Kyrgyz жаздык (cazdık, “pillow”), Southern Altai јастык (ǰastïk, “pillow”), Yakut сыттык (sıttık, “pillow”). For -/zt/- → -/st/-, compare iste-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈjastək]

Noun

jastëk m (indefinite plural jastëkë, definite singular jastëku, definite plural jastëkët)

  1. pillow, cushion
  2. pad
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