چاق

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See also: جاف, خاف, and حاق

Khalaj

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Adjective

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چاق (çâq)

  1. Arabic spelling of çâq (thick)

Ottoman Turkish

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Adverb

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چاق (çak)

  1. exactly
  2. precisely

Descendants

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  • Turkish: çak

Persian

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Etymology

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Doublet of چاغ (čâğ) and from the same Turkic source as the former.[1] The semantic development must have been along the lines of 'measure of something' → 'in high measure' → 'strong'[2] → 'thick, healthy, sound' etc. Compare Uzbek chogʻ (happy, gay, joyful), Azerbaijani çağ (healthy; well-fed; happy) for a similar development. Cognate with Talysh çok (good). Persian چاغ (čâğ) was borrowed from a parallel track of semantic development, 'measure of something' → 'measure of time' → 'time'.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? čāq
Dari reading? čāq
Iranian reading? čâğ
Tajik reading? čoq

Adjective

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Dari چاق
Iranian Persian
Tajik чоқ

چاق (čâq) (comparative چاق‌تَر (čâq-tar), superlative چاق‌تَرین (čâq-tarin))

  1. fat, overweight
    Synonyms: فربه (farbe), شکم‌گنده (šekam-gonde)
    Antonym: لاغر (lâğar)
    سه کیلو چاق شده‌ام.se kilo čâq šode-am.I gained three kilograms.
  2. (colloquial) thick
  3. (colloquial) healthy, sound
    دماغت چاقه؟damâğ-et čâq-e?you doin' well?!

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ 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 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1047, page 29
  2. ^ 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)‎[2] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1045, page 26

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian چاق (čāq), from Turkic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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چاق (cāq) (Hindi spelling चाक़)

  1. obese, fat, overweight
  2. alert, active, lively
  3. dexterous

References

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  • چاق”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • چاق”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.