چمچه

See also: چمچہ

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چومچه (çumça, çümçe, çömçe), چمچق (çamçak), چمشق (çamşak)

Etymology

Likely not inherited in this form in Oghuz, but borrowed from Persian چمچه (čamče), which itself is a borrowing from Turkic. Compare dialectal چمچ (çömüç), also from Proto-Turkic *kamïč.

Noun

چمچه • (çamça, çemçe, çumça, çümçe, çömçe, çömçü)

1. drinking-tray, bowl, nap
2. scoop, ladle, spattle

   Synonym: صوساق (susak)

Descendants

• Turkish: çemçe, çömçe (“ladle”)
• North Mesopotamian Arabic: چُمْچَة (çumça, “ladle”)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çemçe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 926
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cotyla”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 295
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چمچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1649
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چمچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 730
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چمچه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 365

Persian

Etymology

Turkic borrowing. Found in Kazakh шөміш (şömış), Kyrgyz чөмүч (cömüc), Bashkir сүмес (sümes), Uzbek choʻmich, Chagatai [script needed] (čömüš), and compare probably separate but similarly formed Uyghur [script needed] (qemič), Karakhanid [script needed] (qamɨč), Tuvan хымыш (xımış), Yakut хомуос (qomuos), Dolgan комуос, Bulgar [script needed] (xumǯa) from Proto-Turkic *kamïč, all meaning “scoop, ladle”. In Persian the stem of the former word appears suffixed +‎ ـچه (-če, diminutive).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃam.ˈt͡ʃa], [t͡ʃum.ˈt͡ʃa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.t͡ʃʰǽ], [t͡ʃʰʊm.t͡ʃʰǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.t͡ʃʰǽ], [t͡ʃʰʊm.t͡ʃʰǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.t͡ʃʰǽ], [t͡ʃʰʊm.t͡ʃʰǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.t͡ʃʰǽ], [t͡ʃʰum.t͡ʃʰǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰæm.t͡ʃʰé], [t͡ʃʰom.t͡ʃʰé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.t͡ʃʰǽ], [t͡ʃʰum.t͡ʃʰǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	čamča, čumča
Dari reading?	čamča, čumča
Iranian reading?	čamča, čomče
Tajik reading?	čamča, čumča

Noun

Dari	چمچه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чумча

چمچه • (čamče, čomče)

1. (archaic) spoon

   Synonym: قاشق (qâšoq)

2. scoop

Descendants

• → Iraqi Arabic: چَمْچَة (čámča, “ladle”)
• → Armenian: չոմչա (čʻomčʻa), չամչիկ (čʻamčʻik)
• → Assamese: চামুচ (samus)
• → Baluchi: چمچہ (camca)
• → Bengali: চামচ (camoc)
• → Chagatai: چمچه (çemçe), چومچار (çumçar)
• → Doteli: चम्मच (cammac)
• → Georgian: ჩამჩა (čamča) (or via Turkic, since the 14th century)
• → Gujarati: ચમચો (camco)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: चमचा (camcā), चम्मच (cammac)
  • Urdu: چمچہ (camcā), چمّچ (cammac)
    • → Malay: camca / چمچا
      • Indonesian: camca
• → Kannada: ಚಮಚ (camaca)
• → Marathi: चमचा (camcā)
• → Marwari: सम्स्यो (samsyo)
• → Odia: ଚାମଚ (camôcô)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چمچه (çamça, çemçe, çumça, çümçe, çömçe), چومچه (çumça, çümçe, çömçe), چمچق (çamçak), چمشق (çamşak)
  • Turkish: çemçe, çömçe (“ladle”)
  • North Mesopotamian Arabic: چُمْچَة (çumça, “ladle”)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਚਮਚਾ (camcā)
  • Shahmukhi script: چمچہ (camcā)
• → Sanskrit: चमस (camasa)
• → Tamil: சம்சா (camcā)
• → Crimean Tatar: çömüç
• → Telugu: చెమ్చా (cemcā)
• → Turkmen: çemçe
• →⇒ Old Armenian: չամչաշերեփ (čʻamčʻašerepʻ)