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)
- wooden bucket, container cut from a tree-stump
- major feather of a wing, plume
- 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
Ottoman Turkish
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چلك
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مباشرله چلنك
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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)
- wooden bucket, container cut from a tree-stump
- Synonym: قوغه (koğa, kova)
- major feather of a wing, plume
- a major feather of a wing, plume, worn as decoration, plume as well as aigrette
- an institutionalized military decoration until the Tanzimat era in the form of a jewelled aigrette
Descendants
- Turkish: çelek (“wooden bucket”) (dialectal)
Noun
چلك • (çilek)
- Alternative spelling of چیلك (çilek, “strawberry”)
Noun
چلك • (çelik)
- 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