چلك

چلك

See also: چلک‎ and چلڭ‎

Chagatai

Alternative forms

• (plume): چلنك‎ (çelenk) (more common in this sense)

Etymology

Compare Ottoman Turkish چلك‎ (çelek) and Persian چلک‎ (çulk, çilk, “ladle, skimmer”).

Noun

چلك (çelek)

1. wooden bucket, container cut from a tree-stump
2. major feather of a wing, plume
   1. a major feather of a wing, plume, worn as ornament, plume as well as aigrette

References

• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) Dictionnaire turk-oriental‎ (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 287
• Ünlü, Suat (2013) Çağatay Türkçesi Sözlüğü, Konya: Eğitim Yayınevi, page 235
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “چلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 364

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Ottoman Turkish

چلك

مباشرله چلنك

عسكری چلنك

Etymology 1

Compare Chagatai چلك‎ (çelek), Ottoman Turkish چلیك‎ (çelik, “tipcat”), and Persian چلک‎ (çulk, çilk, “ladle, skimmer”).

Alternative forms

• (plume): چلنك‎ (çelenk) (more common in this sense)
• (plume): چلنك‎ (çılınk), چلڭ‎ (çılıñ)

Noun

چلك • (çelek)

1. wooden bucket, container cut from a tree-stump

   Synonym: قوغه‎ (koğa, kova)

2. major feather of a wing, plume
3. a major feather of a wing, plume, worn as decoration, plume as well as aigrette
4. an institutionalized military decoration until the Tanzimat era in the form of a jewelled aigrette

Descendants

• Turkish: çelek (“wooden bucket”) (dialectal)

Noun

چلك • (çilek)

1. Alternative spelling of چیلك‎ (çilek, “strawberry”)

Noun

چلك • (çelik)

1. Alternative spelling of چلیك‎ (çelik, “tipcat; steel”)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1642
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “چلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 364
• Chelengk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia