چلتیك

See also: چلتیک

Ottoman Turkish

چلتیك

Alternative forms

• چلتوك (çeltük), چیلتیك (çiltik), شلتوك (şeltük)

Etymology

From Persian شلتوک (šaltôk, “rice still in the husk; rice-hull”), a compound of شالی (šâli, “rice hull”) + توک (tôk, “bundle, fagot; handle, grip”).

Noun

چلتیك • (çeltik)

1. paddy, rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested
2. paddy, paddy field, rice paddy, an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown

Derived terms

• چلتیكلك (çeltiklik, “marshy land cultivated as a rice paddy”)
• چلتیكلنمك (çeltiklenmek, “to become a rice paddy”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çeltik

Çeltik district

Proper noun

چلتیك • (çeltik)

1. Çeltik (a town and district in Konya province, Turkey)

Descendants

• Turkish: Çeltik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çeltik1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 925
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چلتیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 473
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çeltik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Çeltik”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چلتیك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 728
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Çeltik”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[3], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 180