çatlak
Turkish
Etymology
Cognate with Azerbaijani çatlaq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tʃɑtˈɫɑk]
- (dialectal) (prostitute): IPA(key): [tʃɑtˈɫɑx]
Adjective
çatlak (comparative daha çatlak, superlative en çatlak)
- split, slit, cracked, fissured
- chapped (skin)
- cracked, uneven in tone (of voice)
- (figuratively, colloquial) crazy, loony, cracked, nuts
Noun
çatlak (definite accusative çatlağı, plural çatlaklar)
- crack, split; fissure
- chap, crack (on the skin)
- crack in the bone
- (dialectal, Mesudiye) prostitute
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | çatlak | |
| Definite accusative | çatlağı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | çatlak | çatlaklar |
| Definite accusative | çatlağı | çatlakları |
| Dative | çatlağa | çatlaklara |
| Locative | çatlakta | çatlaklarda |
| Ablative | çatlaktan | çatlaklardan |
| Genitive | çatlağın | çatlakların |
Descendants
- Armenian: չաթլախ (čʿatʿlax)
References
- “çatlak”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume III, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1968, page 1091a