Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish گردن (gerden, “neck, throat”).[1]
gjerdan m (plural gjerdanë)
- necklace
- Synonym: gushore
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “gjerdan”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 172