چیرك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چاریك (çaryek /⁠çeyrek⁠/)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چاریک (čâryak), چارک (čârak), from چار (čâr, “four”) +‎ یک (yak, “one”).

Noun

چیرك • (çeyrek)

1. quarter, ¹⁄₄
2. quarter of an hour, 15'

   چیرك وار ― çeyrek var ― a quarter to

Derived terms

• چیركجی (çeyrekçi)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çeyrek
• → Albanian: çerek
• → Armenian: չէյրէկ (čʻēyrēk)
• → Bulgarian: чейре́к (čejrék)
• → Greek: τσεϊρέκι (tseïréki)
• → Laz: ჩეჲრეღი (çeyreği)
• → Serbo-Croatian: čèreg／чѐрег, čèrek／чѐрек

References

• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 399, page 32b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیرك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 743
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چیرك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 484
• Stachowski, Stanisław (1998) Osmanlı Türkçesinde yeni Farsça alıntılar sözlüğü – Wörterbuch der neupersischen Lehnwörter im Osmanisch-Türkischen (in German), Istanbul: Simurg, § 83, page 113