چچارون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چاچارون (çaçaron), چاچه‌رون (çaçaron)

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian ciaciaron (“chatterbox”), compare Italian chiacchierone.

Adjective

چچارون • (çaçaron)

1. loquatious, talkative
   • 1912, حسین رحمی [hüseyn rahmi], جادی [cadı], page 31:

     كل بو چاچه‌رون ينكه‌كك ألندن بنی قورتار...

     gel bu çaçaron yengeñiñ elinden beni kurtar...

     Come save me from the hands of this chatty aunt-in-law of yours...

Derived terms

• چچارونلق (çaçaronluk)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çaçaron
• → Armenian: չաչարօն (čʻačʻarōn), չաչառօն (čʻačʻaṙōn)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چچارون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 715a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چچارون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 467b
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 168
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “چچارون”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 282b
• Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “چٰچارون”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 507a