چاقماق
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Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- چاقمق (çakmak), چقماق (çakmak)
- չագմագ (çakmak) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *č(i)akmak (“firestriker”), a development of *č(i)ak- (“to hit, strike”), whence چاقمق (çakmak, “to hit, strike”). Cognate with Azerbaijani çaxmaq and Uyghur چاقماق (chaqmaq).
Noun
[edit]چاقماق • (çakmak)
- firestriker, firesteel, a piece of steel used for striking a spark
- Synonym: مقدح (mıkdah)
- lock, flintlock, the mechanism used to initiate firing in small guns
- (dermatology) certain kind of pimple or pustule on the face
Derived terms
[edit]- تفنك چاقماغی (tüfenk çakmağı, “flint”)
- طوپ چاقماغی (top çakmağı, “primer”)
- عرب چاقماغی (ʿarab çakmağı, “wooden apparatus for producing fire”)
- چاقماق طاشی (çakmak taşı, “flintstone”)
- چاقماق چاقمق (çakmak çakmak, “to use a firestriker”)
- چاقماقجی (çakmakcı, “maker or seller of firestrikers”)
- چاقماقسز (çakmaksız, “that has no steel for striking fire”)
- چاقماقلو (çakmaklı, “fired by a firestriker”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: çakmak
- → Albanian: çakmak
- → Bulgarian: чакма́к (čakmák)
- → Georgian: ჩახმახი (čaxmaxi)
- → Greek: τσακμάκι (tsakmáki)
- → Macedonian: чакмак (čakmak)
- → Middle Armenian: չախմախ (čʻaxmax)
- Armenian: չախմախ (čʻaxmax)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çakmak4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 861
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاقماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 461
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ignitabulum”, 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 726
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 1553
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاقماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 706
Uyghur
[edit]Other scripts | |
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Perso-Arabic | چاقماق |
Latin | chaqmaq |
Cyrillic | чақмақ |
Noun
[edit]چاقماق • (chaqmaq) (plural چاقماقلار (chaqmaqlar))
- lightning
- burning fire