پچاق

Chagatai

پچاق

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïčgak (“knife”). Cognate with Azerbaijani bıçaq, Bashkir бысаҡ (bısaq), Kazakh пышақ (pyşaq), Kyrgyz бычак (bıcak), Ottoman Turkish بیچاق (bıçak) (whence Turkish bıçak), Tatar пычак (pıçaq), Turkmen pyçak.

Noun

پچاق (piçaq)

1. knife

Descendants

• Uyghur: پىچاق (pichaq)
• Uzbek:

  Latin script: pichoq

  Cyrillic script: пичоқ

Further reading

• Jarring, Gunnar (1964) “پچاق”, in An Eastern Turki-English Dialect Dictionary‎^[1], C.W.K. Gleerup, page 229
• Schluessel, Eric (2018) “پچاق”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎^[2], Michigan Publishing, page 273
• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “پچاق”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[3] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 182