Shkodër

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Shkodër.

Proper noun

Shkodër

1. A city in northwestern Albania (the country's fifth largest), located on a plain between the marshlands of Lake Shkodër and the foothills of the Albanian Alps, surrounded on three sides by the rivers Kir, Drin and Buna; it is the seat of its eponymous county, municipality and administrative unit.
2. A county of Albania.
3. A municipality of the county of Shkodër, Albania.
4. An administrative unit of the municipality of Shkodër in the county of Shkodër, Albania.

Synonyms

• (city): Scutari (Italian borrowing, historical)
• (city): Scodra (Latin borrowing, historical)

Derived terms

• Lake Shkodër

Related terms

• Shkodran
• Shkodrane

Translations

city in northwestern Albania

• Albanian: Shkodër f (indefinite), Shkodra (sq) f (definite)
• Arabic: إِشْقُودْرَة (ʔišqūdra)
• Aromanian: Shcodrã f, Shcodre f (indefinite), Shcodra f (definite)
• Bulgarian: Шкодра f (Škodra), Скадър m (Skadǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斯庫台 (Sīkùtái)

• Czech: Skadar m
• German: Shkodra n
• Greek: Σκόδρα (el) f (Skódra)
• Hebrew: שקודרה f (shkódra)
• Italian: Scutari (it) f
• Korean: 슈코더르 (Syukodeoreu)
• Latin: Scodra f, Scutarum n
• Macedonian: Скадар m (Skadar)
• Ottoman Turkish: اشقودره (İşkodra)
• Polish: Szkodra (pl) f
• Russian: Шко́дер (ru) m (Škóder)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Скадар m

  Roman: Skadar (sh) m

• Turkish: İşkodra (tr)
• Ukrainian: Шкодер m (Škoder), Шкодра f (Škodra)
• Vietnamese: Shkodër

county of Albania

• Albanian: Qarku i Shkodrës m (definite)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 士科德州 (Shìkēdé zhōu)

• German: Qark Shkodra m
• Greek: Νομός Σκόδρας m (Nomós Skódras)
• Korean: 슈코더르주 (Syukodeoreuju)
• Turkish: İşkodra ili