چاقی

چاقی

See also: حاقي‎ and خافي‎

Ottoman Turkish

چاقی

Alternative forms

• چاكی‎ (çakı)

Etymology

Unclear; probably related to Persian چاقو‎ (čâqu, “knife”), even though the direction of interaction between Persian and Turkish is not clear. Alternatively, Nishanyan derives this word from Proto-Turkic *č(i)ak- (“to hit, strike, knock”), the same root of چاقمق‎ (çakmak, “to knock in, nail, strike”).

Noun

چاقی • (çakı)

1. penknife, clasp-knife, pocketknife, a small knife whose blades can fold in its handle

Derived terms

• چاقیجی‎ (çakıcı, “knife peddler”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çakı
• → Albanian: çaki
• → Aromanian: čacíĭe
• → Bulgarian: чаки́я (čakíja), чеки́я (čekíja)
• → Macedonian: чекија (čekija), чакија (čakija), чакиче (čakiče) (all only in Northern dialects and obsolete)
• → Middle Armenian: չախու (čʿaxu)
  • Armenian: չախու (čʿaxu)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (South of Danube and Sava, obsolete)

  Cyrillic: чекѝја, чакѝја

  Latin: čekìja, čakìja

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çakı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 858
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎ (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 174, pages 303–304
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)‎ (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 174, page 384
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چاقی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 462
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çakı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چاقی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 707

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Persian

Noun

چاقی • (čâqi)

1. obesity