Kaçanik

• Kacanik, Kačanik
• Kachanik, Katchanik (dated)

Borrowed from Albanian Kaçanik and Serbo-Croatian Kȁčanīk / Ка̏чанӣк in the -ç- and -č- spellings respectively.

• enPR: kä′chänĭk, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑt͡ʃɑnɪk/^[1] (according to Serbian pronunciation)

Kaçanik

1. A town in Ferizaj district, Kosovo

• Kaçanik on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Attested as Ottoman Turkish قچانیك (kaçanik) (1660), Italian Kazianick (1700). The town was reportedly founded, or perhaps renovated, by Grand Vizir Koxha Sinan Pasha, whose epithet suffixed with the Slavic suffix -nik became the name of the town. The devoicing of /d͡ʒ/ in this context is characteristic of Albanian, most likely due to influenc of the kaça- prefixoid, and also observed in the corradical koçobash.

Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi, by folk etymology, explained it as a derivation from Ottoman Turkish قاچان (kaçan, “fleeing”), for the full anecdote read the quote at قچانیك (kaçanik).

• IPA^(key): /kat͡ʃaˈnik/
• Rhymes: -ik

Kaçanik m (definite Kaçaniku)

2. Kaçanik (a town in Ferizaj district, Kosovo)

   Gryka e Kaçanikut ― Kaçanik Gorge

   • 1937, Gjergj Fishta, Lahuta e Malcís, canto 29, lines 285–287:

     Kshtû at herë Shkjau i u rras Shqypnís // M' Kaçanik, e m' Adrjatik, // Veleçik, e Salonik

     Thus the Slavs attacked Albania, in Kaçanik, on the Adriatic, on Veleçik and in Thessaloniki

3. a valley near Vukël, Kelmend, Shkodër, Albania
4. a cliff in Orosh, Mirditë, Lezhë, Albania

• Gelasius Toponomastik, year 19 page 173: “Kaçaniku”

• Kacianik, Kazianick (obsolete)

Borrowed from Albanian Kaçanik.

Kaçanik f

1. Kaçanik (a town in Ferizaj district, Kosovo)
   • 1997, Luciano Bozzo, Carlo Simon-Belli, La “questione illirica”, Milano: F. Angeli, →ISBN, page 92:

     Nonostante l'iniziativa serba, il 7 settembre 1990 l'organo parlamentare regionale si riunì clandestinamente nella città di Kaçanik.

     Despite the Serbian initiative the 7th of September 1990 the regional parliamentory body gathered clandestinely in the city of Kaçanik.