چاقر
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *čakïr (“light grey, greyish blue”). Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (čaqïr, “blue, grey (of eyes)”), Kazakh шағыр (şağyr, “blue/grey eyes”), Bashkir шағыр (şağır, “whitish”), etc.
The senses ”wine, intoxicating drink” seems to have a different etymology. Cognate with Kipchak [script needed] (čager, “wine”) (attested in Codex Cumanicus), Turkmen çakyr (“wine”), Azerbaijani çaxır (“wine”), etc.
Adjective
چاقر • (çakır)
- light blue, grey
- blue striped
- blue eyed
Noun
چاقر • (çakır)
- wine, any intoxicating drink
- a clattering sound
- merlin, stone falcon
Derived terms
- چاقرجه (çakırca)
- چاقرجی (çakırcı)
- چاقر پنچه (çakır pençe)
- چاقر چوقور (çakır çukur)
- چاقر دكنی (çakır dikeni)
- چاقر طوغان (çakır doğan)
- چاقر قنات (çakır kanat)
- چاقر كوز (çakır göz)
- چاقر كیف (çakır keyf)
Descendants
- Turkish: çakır
- → Armenian: չախըռ (čʿaxəṙ)
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “706”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 705
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چاقر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 461