چلك

See also: چلک and چلڭ

Chagatai

Alternative forms

  • (plume): چلنك (çelenk) (more common in this sense)

Etymology

Compare Ottoman Turkish چلك (çelek) and Persian چلک (čolk, čelk, ladle, skimmer).

Noun

چلك (çelek)

  1. wooden bucket, container cut from a tree-stump
  2. major feather of a wing, plume
    1. a major feather of a wing, plume, worn as ornament, plume as well as aigrette

References

  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “چلك”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 287
  • Ünlü, Suat (2013) Çağatay Türkçesi Sözlüğü, Konya: Eğitim Yayınevi, page 235
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 364

Ottoman Turkish

چلك
مباشرله چلنك
عسكری چلنك

Etymology 1

Compare Chagatai چلك (çelek), Ottoman Turkish چلیك (çelik, tipcat), and Persian چلک (čolk, čelk, ladle, skimmer).

Alternative forms

  • (plume): چلنك (çelenk) more common in this sense
  • (plume): چلنك (çılınk), چلڭ (çılıñ)

Noun

چلك • (çelek)

  1. wooden bucket, container cut from a tree-stump
    Synonym: قوغه (koğa, kova)
  2. major feather of a wing, plume
  3. a major feather of a wing, plume, worn as decoration, plume as well as aigrette
  4. an institutionalized military decoration until the Tanzimat era in the form of a jewelled aigrette
Descendants
  • Turkish: çelek (wooden bucket) (dialectal)

Noun

چلك • (çilek)

  1. Alternative spelling of چیلك (çilek, strawberry)

Noun

چلك • (çelik)

  1. Alternative spelling of چلیك (çelik, tipcat; steel)

Further reading

  • 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, Vienna, column 1642
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 364
  • Chelengk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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