چكركه

Ottoman Turkish

چكركه

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čekürtke (“grasshopper”); cognate with Azerbaijani çəyirtkə, Kazakh шегіртке (şegırtke), Kyrgyz чегиртке (cegirtke), Tatar чикерткә (çikertkä), Turkmen çekirtge, Uyghur چېكەتكە (chëketke), Uzbek chigirtka and Yakut сахсырҕа (saqsırğa).

Noun

چكركه • (çekirge)

1. grasshopper, any insect of the order Orthoptera
2. cricket, any insect of the family Gryllidae

Derived terms

• چكركه قوشی (çekirge kuşu, “starling”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çekirge

Proper noun

چكركه • (çekirge)

1. A village in Bursa, Turkey, modern Çekirge.

Descendants

• Turkish: Çekirge

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çekirge”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 918
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چكركه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 472
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Locusta”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 967
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چكركه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1630
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çekirge”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چكركه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 725