چاقماق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- چقماق (çakmak)
Etymology
Cognate with Azerbaijani çaxmaq.
Noun
چاقماق • (çakmak)
- any instrument used for striking fire; especially, a steel for striking on a flint, a firestriker
- lock of a gun
- certain kind of pimple or pustule on the face
Descendants
- Turkish: çakmak
- → Albanian: çakmak
- → Bulgarian: чакма́к (čakmák)
- → Georgian: ჩახმახი (čaxmaxi)
- → Greek: τσακμάκι (tsakmáki)
- → Macedonian: чакмак (čakmak)
- → Middle Armenian: չախմախ (čʿaxmax)
- Armenian: չախմախ (čʿaxmax)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ча̀кмак
- Latin: čàkmak
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چاقماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 706
Uyghur
Noun
چاقماق • (chaqmaq) (plural چاقماقلار (chaqmaqlar))
- lightning
- burning fire