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] (in French), 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

Urdu

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit चैत्र (caitra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛːt̪/
• Rhymes: -ɛːt̪

Proper noun

چَیت • (cait) m (Hindi spelling चैत)

1. Chaitra

Declension

Declension of چیت

	singular	plural
direct	چَیت (cait)	چَیت (cait)
oblique	چَیت (cait)	چَیتوں (caitõ)
vocative	چَیت (cait)	چَیتو (caito)

See also

Hindu calendar monthsedit

• چَیت (cait)
• بَیساکھ (baisākh)
• جیٹھ (jeṭh)
• آساڑھ (āsāṛh)
• ساوَن (sāvan)
• بھادوں (bhādõ)
• آسِن (āsin)
• کاتِک (kātik)
• اَگْہَن (aghan)
• پوس (pos)
• ماہ (māh)
• پھاگُن (phāgun)

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “چیت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 569
• Platts, John T. (1884), “چیت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 470
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “چیت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 267
• “چیت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “چیت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 759
• “چیت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.