چاغلا

Ottoman Turkish

چاغلا

Alternative forms

• چغاله (çağala, çağla), چغله (çağala, çağla), چغلا (çağala, çağla)

Etymology

From Persian چغاله (čağâle, “unripe fruit”).

Noun

چاغلا • (çağala, çağla)

1. unripe almond in its outer envelope
2. wild almond, wild growing forms of the almond

Descendants

• Turkish: çağla
• → Armenian: չաղլա (čʻaġla), չալաղա (čʻalaġa), չաղալա (čʻaġala)
• → Greek: τσάγαλο n (tságalo)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çağla”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 853
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاغلا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 460
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Amygdalum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 60
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاغلا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1552
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çağla”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاغلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 705