bashkëpunëtor

Bashkëpunëtor is an Albanian noun meaning a person who collaborates with others or with an organization. It comes from bashkë-, meaning together, and -punëtor, meaning worker. The term denotes someone who participates jointly in a task, project, or activity, and can refer to colleagues, partners in research, or participants in a cultural, political, or social initiative.

In everyday language, bashkëpunëtori or bashkëpunëtore in gendered form is used neutrally to describe a collaborator or associate. In professional contexts it may be specified, for example as bashkëpunëtori shkencor (scientific collaborator) or bashkëpunëtori në një projekt (project collaborator).

Historically and politically, the word can take on negative connotations when referring to someone who collaborated with an occupying force, an opposing regime, or exposing others to harm; in such uses it is often translated as collaborator or traitor depending on context and language.

Related concepts include bashkëpunim, meaning collaboration.