چاغشیر

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From the root of Turkish çakışmak (“to fit snugly”), probably referring to the tightening around the knee joints of these otherwise loose trousers.

Noun

چاغشیر (čaɣšïr)

1. a kind of baggy trousers

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: çaxçur, carcur
• Ottoman Turkish: چاقشیر (čaqšïr), چقشیر (čaqšïr), چاقشور (čaqšur), چاغشر (čaɣšïr), چاخشور (čaxšur), چاخشیر (čaxšïr), چخشیر (čaxšïr)
  • Turkish: çakşır, (dialectal) çaşkır
  • → Armenian: չաշխուր (čʻašxur), չեխշուր (čʻexšur), չաշխըր (čʻašxər)
  • → German: Tschakschir
  • → Greek: σαξίρια (saxíria)
  • → Moroccan Arabic: تقشيرة (taqšīra)
  • → Romanian: ceacșiri
  • → Russian: чикчи́ры pl (čikčíry), чикче́ры pl (čikčéry)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: čàkšire / ча̀кшире pl
• → Arabic: جَقْشِير (jaqšīr), شَخْشُور (šaḵšūr), شَخْشِير (šaḵšīr)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: çexşûr

• → Persian: چاقشر (čâqšor), چاقشور (čâqšur), چاقچور (čâqčur), چقشور (čaqšur), چخجیر (čaxjir), چاهچور (čâhčur)

Further reading

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1048, pages 29–31
• Stachowski, Marek (2019) “çakşır”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, pages 105–106
• “çağşır”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[2] (in Turkish), volume III, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1967, pages 793–794