See also: چلک and چلڭ

Chagatai edit

Alternative forms edit

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

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

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 edit

  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “چلك”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎[1] (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 edit

 
چلك
 
مباشرله چلنك
 
عسكری چلنك

Etymology 1 edit

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

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

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 edit
  • Turkish: çelek (wooden bucket) (dialectal)

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

چلك (çilek)

  1. Alternative spelling of چیلك (çilek, strawberry)

Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

چلك (çelik)

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

Further reading edit

  • 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[2], 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