چیت

Ottoman Turkish

چیت

Alternative forms

• چت (çit)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čït (“fence”).

Noun

چیت • (çit) (definite accusative چیتی (çiti), plural چیتلر (çitler))

1. hurdle, a movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, used for enclosing land or folding sheep
2. fence, a thin, artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or encloses the lands of a house, building, etc.

   Synonym: سیاج (siyac)

3. hedge, a thicket of bushes or other shrubbery planted as a fence between two portions of land or parts of a garden

   Synonym: سیاج (siyac)

Derived terms

• آرابه چیتی (araba çiti, “partition of a cart”)
• چیت اورمك (çit örmek, “to weave hurdles”)
• چیت چكمك (çit çekmek, “to construct a fence”)
• چیتشمك (çitişmek, “to interlace or become entangled”)
• چیتلتمك (çitletmek, “to make or let be enclosed with hurdles”)
• چیتلك (çitlik, “any boughs or twigs suitable for a fence”)
• چیتلمك (çitlemek, “to hedge, to inclose in a fence”)
• چیتلنمك (çitlenmek, “to be fenced or enclosed with hurdles”)
• چیتلو (çitli, “hurdled or hedged with bushes”)
• یرلو چیت (yerli çit, “permanent hedge”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çit
• → Armenian: չիթ (čʻitʻ)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 619
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çit4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1011
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 179b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 482
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sepes”, 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 1541
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1581
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 742