چیلك

See also: چیلک

Ottoman Turkish

چیلك

Alternative forms

• چلك (çilek), چیكلك (çiğelek)

Etymology

Blend of Proto-Turkic *čiye (“cherry”) and *yegelek (“berry”). Compare Azerbaijani çiyələk, Chagatai چیلاك (čiläk), Kazakh жидек (jidek), Khakas чистек (çistek), Kumyk жиелек (jiyelek), Southern Altai јиилек (ǰiilek) and Tatar җиләк (ciläk) for similar formations.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʃilɛk]

Noun

چیلك • (çilek) (definite accusative چیلكی (çileği), plural چیلكلر (çilekler))

1. strawberry, the sweet, usually red, edible fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria

Derived terms

• آغاج چیلكی (ağac çileği, “raspberry”)
• چیلك فدانی (çilek fidanı, “strawberry plant”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çilek
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟ̰ܸܠܲܝܩܵܐ (čillayqa)
• → Egyptian Arabic: شليك (šilēk) (archaic)
• → Iraqi Arabic: شليك (šillēk)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: çîlek

  Central Kurdish: چیلەک (çîlek)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “چیلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 629
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çilek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 994
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “چلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 187a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چیلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 489
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Fraga”, 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 610
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1642
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çilek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چیلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 747