چنار

چنار

Ottoman Turkish

چنار

Alternative forms

• صنار‎ (sınar) (from Arabic)

Etymology

From Persian چنار‎ (čenâr).

Noun

چنار • (çınar)

1. oriental plane (Platanus orientalis)

Descendants

• Turkish: çınar
• → Albanian: çinar
• → Armenian: չընար (čʿənar)
• → Bulgarian: чина́р (činár)
• → Greek: τσινάρι (tsinári)
• → Macedonian: чинар (činar)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çınar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 967
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چنار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 475
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Platanus”, 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 1306
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چنار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1658
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çınar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چنار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731

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Persian

Alternative forms

• چنال‎ (čenâl), صنار‎ (senâr) (rare)

Etymology

From Middle Persian cynʾl (činār).

Pronunciation

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰeˈnɒːɾ]

Noun

Dari	چنار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чинор (činor)

چنار • (čenâr) (plural چنارها‎ (čenâr-hâ))

1. chinar, oriental plane, Platanus orientalis
2. Platanus

Adjective

چنار • (čenâr)

1. (slang) tall (of person)

Descendants

• Armenian: չինար (čʿinar)
• Azerbaijani: çinar
• Georgian: ჩინარი (činari)
• Hindi: चिनार (cinār)
• Northern Kurdish: çinar
• Malayalam: ചിനാർ (cināṟ)
• Mingrelian: ჩინარი (činari)
• Russian: чинар (činar)
• Tatar: чинар (çinar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چنار‎ (çınar), صنار‎ (sınar)
  • Turkish: çınar
  • → Albanian: çinar
  • → Armenian: չընար (čʿənar)
  • → Bulgarian: чина́р (činár)
  • → Greek: τσινάρι (tsinári)
  • → Macedonian: чинар (činar)
• Uzbek: chinor
• Urdu: چنار‎ (činar)

See also

• چنار خاوری on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “činār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 22