Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

First attested in 1665 as Ottoman Turkish چكه‌لز (çekelez) in Bernardo Da Parigi's dictionary. Further origin is uncertain. Perhaps a derivative of چكمك (çekmek).

Noun edit

çekelez (definite accusative çekelezi, plural çekelezler)

  1. (regional) squirrel
    Synonyms: sincap, değin
  2. (regional) butcher

Descendants edit

  • Northern Kurdish: çekeloz
  • Laz: ჩიქილაზე (çikilaze)

Further reading edit

  • Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “çekelez”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çekelez”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 913a
  • Eren, Hasan (1999) “çekelez”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2015) “Bernardo Da Parigi’s Vocabolario Italiano-Turchesco (1665): an Ottoman-Turkish lexicographical monument still neglected”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 132, →DOI, page 267 of 263–269
  • çekelez”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 3, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1968, pages 1109–1110
  • Öz Türkçe Karşılıklar[1] (in Turkish), Vakit Matbaası, 1934, page 175