چاغ

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• չաղ (çağ) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čiāk (“time”). Possibly related to Mongolian. See Azerbaijani çağ for more.

Noun

چاغ • (çağ)

1. time

   Synonyms: زمان, وقت, هنكام, اثنا

   صباح چاغی ― sabah çağı ― morning

2. season, period

   Synonym: موسم

   كل چاغی ― gül çağı ― spring (literally, “season of rose”)

3. age

   Synonym: یاش

   یكرمی چاغنده بر دلیقانلی ― yirmi çağında bir delikanlı ― a twenty year-old lad

   اورته چاغده بر آدم ― orta çağda bir adam ― a middle-aged man

4. (figuratively) the right time
5. a cycle of 12 years

Descendants

• Turkish: çağ
• → Armenian: չաղ (čʻaġ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çağ⁵”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 851
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 460
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 704
• Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “چاغ”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 498