Chagatai

See also: chagatai

English

Etymology

Named after the Chagatai Khanate, a medieval Mongol and later Turkicized khanate, itself named after Chagatai Khan, a son of Genghis Khan, from Middle Mongolian ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠶ (čaɣatay).

Proper noun

Chagatai

1. An extinct literary Turkic language used in Central Asia and Bashkortostan until the twentieth century.
2. Chagatai Khan, the second son of Genghis Khan and Khan of the Chagatai Khanate, after whom the Chagatai language and Chagatai people are named.

Translations

extinct Turkic language

• Armenian: չաղաթայերեն (hy) (čʿałatʿayeren)
• Azerbaijani: çağatay dili, cığatay dili, cığatay türkcəsi
• Bashkir: сағатай теле (sağatay tele)
• Bengali: চাগাতাই ভাষা (cagatai bhaśa)
• Catalan: txagatai m
• Chagatai: جغتای‎ (jaĝatāy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 察合台語, 察合台语 (Cháhétái yǔ)

• Finnish: tšagatai (fi)
• Hungarian: csagatáj

• Kazakh: шағатай тілі (şağatay tili)
• Khakas: сағатай тілі (sağatay tìlì)
• Korean: 차가타이어 (chagataieo)
• Malayalam: ചഗതായ് ഭാഷ (cagatāyŭ bhāṣa)
• Persian: زبان جغتایی‎
• Portuguese: chagatai (pt) m
• Russian: чагатайский m (čagatajskij)
• Swedish: tjagataiska
• Turkish: Çağatayca (tr)
• Uyghur: چاغاتاي تىلى‎ (chaghatay tili), چاغاتايچە‎ (chaghatayche)
• Uzbek: chag'atoy

second son of Genghis Khan

• Arabic: جغطاي‎
• Bosnian: Čagataj
• Chagatai: جغتای‎ (jaĝatāy)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 察合台 (caat³ hap⁶ toi⁴)

  Mandarin: 察合台 (Cháhétái)

• French: Djaghataï, Tchaghataï, Chagatai
• German: Tshagatai
• Hindi: चग़ताई (caġtāī)
• Italian: Chagatai, Djagatai
• Kazakh: Шағатай (Şağatay)
• Korean: 차가타이 (chagatai)

• Hungarian: Csagatáj
• Indonesian: Chagatai
• Mongolian: Цагадай (Tsagadai), ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠢ (čaɣatai)
• Norwegian: Tsjagadai
• Persian: جغتای‎ (Joghatai)
• Russian: Чагата́й (Čagatáj), Джагата́й (Džagatáj)
• Spanish: Chagatai, Chagatay, Djagatai, Chagadai, Tschagatai
• Turkish: Çağatay (tr)
• Uyghur: چاغاتاي‎‎ (chaghatay‎)
• Vietnamese: Sát Hợp Đài (察合台)

Noun

Chagatai pl (plural only)

1. An ethnic group of Uzbekistan.

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code chg (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Chagatai, chg