چایر

Ottoman Turkish

چایر

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čayïr (“meadow; couch grass”); cognate with Azerbaijani çayır.

Noun

چایر • (çayır)

1. meadow, a field or pasture covered or cultivated with grass

   Synonyms: مرج (merc), یشیللك (yeşillik)

Derived terms

• چایر اوتی (çayır otu, “meadow grass”)
• چایر صوغوغی (çayır soğuğu, “return of cold weather between April and May”)
• چایر قوشی (çayır kuşu, “lark”)
• چایر پنیری (çayır peniri, “fresh cheese”)
• چایرلاتمق (çayırlatmak, “to cause to graze”)
• چایرلامق (çayırlamak, “to pasture, graze”)
• چایرلانمق (çayırlanmak, “to become a meadow”)
• چایرلق (çayırlık, “meadow-land”)
• چایرلو (çayırlı, “containing meadows”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çayır
• → Armenian: չայիր (čʻayir)
• → Macedonian: чаир (čair)
• → Romanian: ceair
• → Zazaki: çayir

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çayır1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 907
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چایر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 178b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چایر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 466
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pratum”, 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 1355
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چایر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1571
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çayır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چایر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 712