چكركه
Ottoman Turkish
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چكركه
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čekürtke (“grasshopper”); cognate with Azerbaijani çəyirtkə, Kazakh шегіртке (şegırtke), Kyrgyz чегиртке (çegirtke), Tatar чикерткә (çikertkä), Turkmen çekirtge, Uyghur چېكەتكە (chëketke), Uzbek chigirtka and Yakut сахсырҕа (saxsırğa).
Noun
چكركه • (çekirge)
- grasshopper, any insect of the order Orthoptera
- cricket, any insect of the family Gryllidae
Derived terms
- چكركه قوشی (çekirge kuşu, “starling”)
Descendants
- Turkish: çekirge
Proper noun
چكركه • (çekirge)
- A village in Bursa, Turkey, modern Çekirge.
Descendants
- Turkish: Çekirge
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çekirge”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 918
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چكركه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 472
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Locusta”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 967
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چكركه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1630
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çekirge”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چكركه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 725