چفتلك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
چفت (çift, “pair, team”) + ـلك (-lik).
Noun
چفتلك • (çiftlik)
- the quality of being a pair or team
- an amount of land a single plow of oxen can plow in one day, journey
- farm, agricultural estate
- a kind of agricultural estate treated more landlord-like than a تیمار (timar) and cultivated by de facto serfs [from the 16th century, peak in the 18th]
Related terms
- خاصه چفتلك (hassa çiftlik))
- بكلك چفتلك (beylik çiftlik)
- چفتجی (çiftçi, “farmer”)
- چفتجیلك (çiftçilik, “farming”)
Descendants
- Turkish: çiftlik
- → Armenian: չիֆլիկ (čʿiflik), չիֆթլիկ (čʿiftʿlik)
- → Bulgarian: чифлѝк (čiflìk)
- → Greek: τσιφλίκι (tsiflíki)
- → Hungarian: csiflik
- → Macedonian: чифлиг (čiflig), чифлик (čiflik)
- → Russian: чифтлик (čiftlik)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чѝтлук, чѝфлук, чѝвлук, чѝфтлук
- Latin: čìtluk, čìfluk, čìvluk, čìftluk
- → Hungarian: csivlik[1]
References
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “چفتلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 358
- Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (in French), Mouton/The Hague/Paris: Walter de Gruyter, page 540