çaqmaq

Salar

Etymology

From Oghuz جَقْماقْ (çaqma:q, “to reach; to abet; to light up; lighter”). Cognate to Azerbaijani çaxmaq, Turkish çakmak.

Pronunciation

• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɨχmɨχ/
• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑχmɑχ/

Noun

çaqmaq (3rd person possessive çaqmağı, plural çaqmaqlar)

1. lightning
2. fire striker
3. silex, flint

   Synonym: çaqmaq daş

Derived terms

• çaqmaq daş (“silex, flint”)
• çaqmaq yandırğusı (“lighting arrester”)

References

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 17
• Potanin, G.N. (1893) “çaqmaq”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 428
• Rockhill, William Woodville (1894) Diary of a journey through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, page 374
• Poppe, Nicholas (1953). Remarks on The Salar Language. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 16(3/4), 438–477. [1]
• Kakuk, S. (1962). “Un Vocabulaire Salar.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 14, no. 2: 173–96. [2]
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “çaqmaq”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 312
• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992) “çaqmaq”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 73
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “çaqmaq”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 57