çolbaz

Turkish

Etymology

Perhaps related to Turkish çolpa, from Ottoman Turkish چولپا (çolpa).

Adjective

çolbaz

1. (Trabzon) clumsy

References

• Emiroğlu, Kudret (1989) “çolbaz”, in Trabzon-Maçka Etimoloji Sözlüğü [Trabzon-Maçka Etymological Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Sanat Kitabevi, page 72a
• Tietze, Andreas (2009) “çolpaz/çolbaz”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 529a