چاقماق

Ottoman Turkish
چاقماقلر

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *č(i)akmak (“firestriker”), a development of *č(i)ak- (“to hit, strike”), whence چاقمق (çakmak, “to hit, strike”). Cognate with Azerbaijani çaxmaq and Uyghur چاقماق (chaqmaq).

Noun

چاقماق • (çakmak)

  1. firestriker, firesteel, a piece of steel used for striking a spark
    Synonym: مقدح (mıkdah)
  2. lock, flintlock, the mechanism used to initiate firing in small guns
  3. (dermatology) certain kind of pimple or pustule on the face

Derived terms
  • تفنك چاقماغی (tüfenk çakmağı, “flint”)
  • طوپ چاقماغی (top çakmağı, “primer”)
  • عرب چاقماغی (ʿarab çakmağı, “wooden apparatus for producing fire”)
  • چاقماق طاشی (çakmak taşı, “flintstone”)
  • چاقماق چاقمق (çakmak çakmak, “to use a firestriker”)
  • چاقماقجی (çakmakcı, “maker or seller of firestrikers”)
  • چاقماقسز (çakmaksız, “that has no steel for striking fire”)
  • چاقماقلو (çakmaklı, “fired by a firestriker”)

Descendants

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çakmak4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 861
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاقماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 461
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ignitabulum”, 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, Vienna, column 726
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1553
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاقماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 706

Uyghur
Other scripts
Perso-Arabic چاقماق
Latin ‍chaqmaq‍
Cyrillic чақмақ

Noun

چاقماق • (chaqmaq) (plural چاقماقلار (chaqmaqlar))

  1. lightning
  2. burning fire
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