چاپه
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin sappa (“mattock”), perhaps through Italian zappa (“hoe”), Greek τσάπα (tsápa, “hoe”) or Venetian sapa (“hoe”).
Noun
چاپه • (çapa)
- hoe, an agricultural tool used for digging rows
- Synonym: كنند (kenend)
- (nautical) bends, the thickest planks in a ship
- palm of an anchor, palmed anchor
Derived terms
- چاپهجی (çapacı, “maker or seller of hoes”)
- چاپهلمق (çapalamak, “to hoe”)
- چاپهلنمق (çapalanmak, “to be hoed”)
Descendants
- Turkish: çapa
- → Armenian: չափա (čʿapʿa)
- → Laz: ჩაფა (čapa)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چاپه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 456
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چاپه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1539–1540
- Meyer, Gustav (1892), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çapa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چاپه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 699