چغاله

Persian

Alternative forms

• چاغاله (čâğâle)

Etymology

According to Monchi-Zadeh, the basic meaning is "small hard ball" and is borrowed from a Northeastern Iranian language: compare Pashto ځغاله (źəǧālá, “small lump of dough”).

Compare also Armenian կաղաղ (kaġaġ), ցոգոլ (cʻogol).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃæɢɒːˈle]
• Hyphenation: چ‧غا‧له

Noun

چغاله • (čağâle)

1. (rare) unripe fruit
   1. unripe almond

      Synonym: چغاله‌بادام (čağâle-bâdâm, “unripe almond”)

Derived terms

• چغاله‌بادام (čağâle-bâdâm)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: çağala, çaqqala, çağla, cağla
• → Ottoman Turkish: چاغلا (çağala, çağla, “unripe almond”), چغاله (çağala, çağla), چغله (çağala, çağla), چغلا (çağala, çağla)
  • Turkish: çağla
  • → Armenian: չաղլա (čʻaġla), չալաղա (čʻalaġa), չաղալա (čʻaġala)
  • → Greek: τσάγαλο n (tságalo)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چغاله”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul