چاتال
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- چتال (çatal)
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čatal (“fork”), from *čat- (“to bring together”), the same root of چاتمق (çatmak, “to bring together”).
Noun[edit]
چاتال • (çatal)
- prong, tine, a thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork
- (by extension) fork, a utensil with spikes used to put food into the mouth
- (nautical) breasthook, a horizontal timber fitted in the bows of a ship
Adjective[edit]
چاتال • (çatal)
- forked, bifurcated, divided into two or more branches
Derived terms[edit]
- ایرماق چاتالی (ırmak çatalı, “forks of a river”)
- صیغین چاتالی (sığın çatalı, “antlers”)
- چاتال آناختار (çatal anahtar, “kind of turnscrew”)
- چاتال ایش (çatal iş, “dilemma”)
- چاتال بیل (çatal bil, “digging fork”)
- چاتال دستك (çatal destek, “troublesome pest”)
- چاتال طرناق (çatal tırnak, “cloven hoof”)
- چاتال قازق (çatal kazık, “matter that is involved in difficulties”)
- چاتال چكیچ (çatal çekiç, “kind of hammer”)
- چاتاللاندیرمق (çatallandırmak, “to bifurcate”)
- چاتاللانمق (çatallanmak, “to become bifurcated”)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: çatal
- → Albanian: çatall
- → Armenian: չաթալ (čʻatʻal)
- → Georgian: ჩათალი (čatali) — Chveneburi
- → Iraqi Arabic: چطل (çaṭal)
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çatal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 897
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چاتال”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 174b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاتال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 456
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Furca”, 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[3], Vienna, column 633
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاتال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1540
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çatal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاتال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 700