چالپاره
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian چار پاره (“type of percussion instrument”, literally “four parts”).
Noun
چالپاره • (çalpara)
- type of wooden castanets
Descendants
- Turkish: çalpara
- → Armenian: չալփարա (čʿalpʿara)
- → Romanian: geamparale
References
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “çalpara”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چالپاره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 463a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çalpara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük