چراغ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چراغ (čerâğ, čarâğ).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: چ‧راغ

Noun

چراغ • (çerâg, çirâg)

1. lamp, lantern
2. light
3. wick, candlewick
4. illuminator; teacher, mentor

Related terms

• چراق (çırak)

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Persian

Etymology

From Parthian 𐫝𐫡𐫀𐫃 (crʾg /⁠čirāγ⁠/, “lamp”). Compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (clʾγ), 𐫝𐫡𐫀𐫍 (crʾh /⁠čirāγ⁠/, “lamp”), Sogdian crʾʾγ (čarāγ), Ossetian цырагъ (cyraǧ). Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian ճրագ (črag), Classical Syriac ܫܪܓܐ (šərāḡāʾ), Arabic سِرَاج (sirāj).

Pronunciation

Dari	چراغ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чароғ

Noun

چراغ • (čerâğ) (plural چراغ‌ها (čerâğ-hâ))

1. lamp
2. light
3. stove

Derived terms

• چراغانی (čerâğâni)
• چراغی (čerâği)
• چراغچی (čerâğči)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: çıraq / чыраг / چیراق
• → Georgian: ჩირაღი (čiraɣi)
• → Gujarati: ચિરાગ઼
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चिराग़ (cirāġ)

  Urdu: چراغ (cirāġ)

• → Ossetian: цырагъ (cyraǧ)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چراغ (çerâg, çirâg), چراق (çırak)
  • Turkish: çırak
  • → Albanian: çirak
  • →⇒ Egyptian Arabic: إشراقة (išrāqa), أشراقة (ašrāqa)
  • → Armenian: չրախ (čʻrax), չրաղ (čʻraġ)
  • → Aromanian: cirac, cireac
  • → Bulgarian: чира́к (čirák)
  • → Crimean Tatar: şıraq
  • → Greek: τσιράκι (tsiráki)
  • → Macedonian: чирак (čirak)
  • → Romanian: cirac
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чѝрак

    Latin script: čìrak

• → Uzbek: чироқ (chiroq)

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چراغ (čerâğ, čarâğ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪ.ɾɑːɣ/
• Hyphenation: چ‧راغ

Noun

چراغ • (cirāġ, carāġ) m (Hindi spelling चिराग़)

1. lamp
2. light

Declension

Declension of چراغ
	singular	plural
direct	چراغ (cirāġ)	چراغ (cirāġ)
oblique	چراغ (cirāġ)	چراغوں (cirāġõ)
vocative	چراغ (cirāġ)	چراغو (cirāġo)

Synonyms

• دیا (diyā)
• دیپ (dīp)
• دیپک (dīpak)
• دیپکا (dīpikā)