gepek

See also: gépek

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Gepäck (“luggage, baggage”). The semantics are an extension of baggage (in general) to baggage (of a car); cf. the same development within the Serbo-Croatian cognate.

This is one of a number of German borrowings in Kosovar Albanian introduced by returning Yugoslavia-era Gastarbeiter.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡeˈpek/, [ɡɛˈpɛk]

Noun

gepek m (plural gepeka, definite gepeku, definite plural gepekat)

  1. (Kosovo, colloquial) trunk (of a car)

Declension

Declension of gepek
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gepek gepeku gepeka gepekat
accusative gepekun
dative gepeku gepekut gepekave gepekave
ablative gepekash

References

  1. ^ Gjermanizmat në shqipen e folur në Kosovë (in Albanian), Bojaxhi, Dardane; Caka, Nebi (May 2016)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Gepäck.

Noun

gepek m inan (Cyrillic spelling гепек)

  1. (colloquial) luggage
  2. (colloquial) trunk (of a car)
    Synonym: prtljažnik
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