چارشف
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- چارشاف (çârşaf)
Etymology
From چادر شب (çâdır-ı şeb), from Persian چادر شب (čâdar-e šab).
Noun
چارشف • (çârşaf)
- bedsheet
- large veil that covers the entire body
- (Islam) jilbab
Descendants
- Turkish: çarşaf
- → Albanian: çarçaf, çarshaf
- → Arabic: شَرْشَف (šaršaf)
- → Aromanian: circeafe, cirshafe
- → Bashkir: шаршау (şarşaw)
- → Bulgarian: чарша́ф (čaršáf)
- → Greek: τσαρτσάφι (tsartsáfi)
- → Northern Kurdish: çarşef, çarşev
- → Macedonian: чаршаф (čaršaf)
- → Romanian: cearșaf, cearceaf
- → Serbo-Croatian: čàršaf / ча̀ршаф
References
- Vollers, Karl (1896), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 50, page 614
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “488. čirčáfe.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 110