چادر

Central Kurdish

Noun

چادر (çadir)

1. tent
2. chador

Iraqi Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چادر (çadır).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑːdɪr/

Noun

چادر (čādir) m

1. tent

Ottoman Turkish

چادر

Alternative forms

• چتر (çatır)

Etymology

Attested in Turkic from the 11th century, from Proto-Turkic *čātïr, from Middle Persian čādur (“sheet, veil”) (modern Persian چادر), ultimately from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra).

Noun

چادر • (çadır)

1. tent, a portable lodge made of skin or canvas used for sheltering people

   Synonyms: اوتاق (otağ), چرگه (çerge), خیمه (hayme)

2. balloon, an object designed to transport people through the air
3. chador, a loose robe that envelopes the whole person, worn by Muslim women

Derived terms

• چادر تكرلكی (çadır tekerleği, “cap fitted to the top of a tentpole”)
• چادر دیركی (çadır direği, “tentpole”)
• چادر طوپی (çadır topu, “ball surmounting a tent”)
• چادر قازیغی (çadır kazığı, “tent-pin”)
• چادر قورمق (çadır kurmak, “to pitch a tent”)
• چادر چیچكی (çadır çiçeği, “kind of plant”)
• چادرجی (çadırcı, “tent maker”)
• چادری (çadırı, “pertaining to a tent”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çadır, çador
• → Albanian: çadër
• → Armenian: չատըր (čʻatər), չա̈դըր (čʻädər)
• → Czech: čádor
• → Hungarian: sátor
  • → Macedonian: шатор (šator)
  • → Polish: szatra
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: šator

    Cyrillic script: шатор

• → Romanian: ceadâr
• → Russian: шатёр (šatjór)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (“tent”)

  Cyrillic script: чадор

  Latin script: čador

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çadır2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 849
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “چادر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 175a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چادر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 458
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Tentorium”, 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 1661
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چادر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1542
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çadır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چادر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 701

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian čādur (“sheet, veil”), from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaː.ˈdur/, /t͡ʃaː.ˈdir/, /t͡ʃaː.ˈdar/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɑː.d̪äɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɑː.d̪äɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɑː.d̪äɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɔː.d̪äɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɒː.d̪oɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɔ.d̪äɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	čādur, čādir, čādar
Dari reading?	čādar
Iranian reading?	čâdor
Tajik reading?	čodar

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

چادر • (čādur, čādar / čâdor) (plural چادرها (čādur-hā, čādar-hā / čâdor-hâ), Tajik spelling чодар)

1. tent

   Synonym: گیان (guyān / goyân)

3. chador (a large single piece of cloth worn as a covering over the clothing)
5. (chiefly Dari, Tajik) scarf, veil
6. awning

Usage notes

• sense 2 & 3: In Eastern varieties of Persian, چادر (čādar / čâdor) may be used to ref to scarfs and veils broadly, including scarves loosely worn around the head or neck. However, referring to loose scarves as چادر (čādar / čâdor) would be inappropriate in Iranian Persian.

Descendants

Some of these may descend from the Middle Persian ancestor. In particular, the word is recorded in an 11th century dictionary of Turkic languages.

• → Arabic: شَادُور (šādūr)
• → Armenian: չադրա (čʻadra)
• → Assamese: চাদৰ (sador)
• → Azerbaijani: çador
• → Belarusian: чадра (čadra)
• → Bengali: চাদর (cador)
• → Central Kurdish: چادر (çadir)
• → Dutch: chador
• → Finnish: tšador
• → French: tchador
• → Georgian: ჩადრი (čadri)
• → German: Tschador
• → Gujarati: ચાદર (cādar)
• → Hindustani:

  Urdu: چادَر (cādar)

  Hindi: चादर (cādar)

  • → Danish: chador
  • → English: chador, chadar, chaddar, chuddar, chadah, chader, chadur, chuddah, chudder, chuddur, chudah

• → Hungarian: csador
• → Italian: chador
• → Japanese: チャドル (chadoru)
• → Kazakh: шатыр (şatyr)
• → Korean: 차도르 (chadoreu)
• → Malay: cadar
  • → Indonesian: cadar
• → Marathi: चादर (cādar)
• → Norwegian: chador
• → Ottoman Turkish: چادر (çadır), چتر (çatır)
  • Turkish: çadır, çador
  • → Albanian: çadër
  • → Armenian: չատըր (čʻatər), չա̈դըր (čʻädər)
  • → Czech: čádor
  • → Hungarian: sátor
    • → Macedonian: шатор (šator)
    • → Polish: szatra
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Latin script: šator

      Cyrillic script: шатор

  • → Romanian: ceadâr
  • → Russian: шатёр (šatjór)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (“tent”)

    Cyrillic script: чадор

    Latin script: čador

• → Pashto: چادري (čādarí)
• → Polish: czador
• → Portuguese: xador
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਚਾਦਰ (cādar)

  Shahmukhi script: چادر (čādar)

• → Russian: чадра (čadra)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (“chador”)

  Cyrillic script: чадор

  Latin script: čador

• → Slovene: čador
• → Spanish: chador
• → Ukrainian: чадра (čadra)
• → Uzbek: chodir

Further reading

• “چادر”, in The Wilson English - Dari Dictionary (Webonary), SIL International, 2013
• “чодар”, in Таджикский Словарь [Tadžikskij Slovarʹ, Tajik-Russian Dictionary], 2 April 2022

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چَادَر (čādar).

Noun

چادَر • (cādar) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਚਾਦਰ)

1. chador
2. covering
3. bedspread
4. bed sheet

Declension

Declension of چادر

	singular	plural
direct	چادَر (cādar)	چادَراں (cādarāṉ)
oblique	چادَر (cādar)	چادَراں (cādarāṉ)
vocative	چادَرے (cādare)	چادَرو (cādaro)
ablative	چادَروں (cādaroṉ)	—
locative	چادَری (cādarī)	چادَرِیں (cādarīṉ)
instrumental	چادَرے (cādare)	چادَرِیں (cādarīṉ)

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چَادَر (čādar).

Noun

چادَرَ • (cādara) f (Devanagari चादर)

1. sheet
   1. bedsheet
2. chador

Further reading

• Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988), “چادر”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ, page 705
• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910), “چادر”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, page 192
• Sindhi Language Authority (2025), “چادر”, in Online Sindhi Dictionaries‎^[6]

Southwestern Fars

Noun

چادر (čâder)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) tent
2. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) chador (a large single piece of cloth worn as a covering over the clothing)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چَادَر (čādar). Doublet of چَھتْری (chatrī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː.d̪əɾ/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -əɾ

Noun

چادَر • (cādar) f (Hindi spelling चादर)

1. covering
2. bedspread
3. bed sheet
4. chador

Declension

Declension of چادر

	singular	plural
direct	چادر (cādar)	چادریں (cādarẽ)
oblique	چادر (cādar)	چادروں (cādarõ)
vocative	چادر (cādar)	چادرو (cādaro)

Descendants

• → Danish: chador

References

• “چادر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چادر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.