چقرق

Ottoman Turkish

چقرق

Alternative forms

• چقریق (çıkrık), چیقریق (çıkrık)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čığrık or *čıkrık (“something which revolves”), a word which, according to Nishanyan, ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čakrám (“wheel”).

Noun

چقرق • (çıkrık) (definite accusative چقرغی (çıkrığı), plural چقرقلر (çıkrıklar))

1. spinning wheel, a domestic device for spinning yarn or thread from fibres using one spindle

   Synonym: چرخ (çarh)

2. capstan, windlass, winch, any mechanical device used to pull in or let out a rope or cable

   Synonyms: ارغات (ırgat), بوجرغات (bocurgat)

3. turner’s lathe, a machine tool used to shape a workpiece by rotating it against a cutting tool

   Synonym: طورنو (torno)

4. jenny, spinning jenny, a device or frame for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles

Derived terms

• چقرق ایشی (çıkrık işi, “lathework”)
• چقرقجی (çıkrıkcı, “turner”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çıkrık
• → Albanian: çikrik
• → Armenian: չըխրըխ (čʻəxrəx)
• → Macedonian: чекрек (čekrek)
• → Serbo-Croatian: čèkrk, чѐкрк

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چقرق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 588
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çıkrık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 962
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چقرق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 184b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چیقریق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 487
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Girgillus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 651
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چقرق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1627
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çıkrık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چقرق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 724