چری

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čerig (“army; soldier”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (čérig, “army”), Azerbaijani çəri, Chuvash ҫар (śar, “army”), Kyrgyz черик (cerik, “soldier”) and, more distantly, with Mongolian цэрэг (cereg, “soldier”) and Hungarian sereg.

Noun

چری • (çeri)

1. army, a highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground operations

   Synonyms: جند (cünd), جیش (ceyiş), عسكر (ʼasker), لشكر (leşker)

2. soldier, a member of a ground-based army, of any rank, especially an enlisted one

   Synonym: عسكر (ʼasker)

Derived terms

• چری باشی (çeri başı, “commander”)
• یڭیچری (yeñiçeri, “janissary”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çeri

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çeri”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 938
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 182b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 470
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Miles”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1048
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1605
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çeri”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 719