çakall

• çakan
• çikall

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چقال (çakal), from Persian شغال (šağâl), ultimately from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”).

• IPA^(key): /tʃaˈkaɫ/

çakall m (plural çakaj, definite çakalli, definite plural çakajt)

1. (zoology) jackal
2. (figurative, derogatory) rogue, scoundrel; blood-sucking or insatiable man
3. (Tosk) dragon

• “çakall”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çakall”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 98
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “çakáll”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 54