چاقر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čakïr (“light grey, greyish blue”). Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (čaqïr, “blue, grey (of eyes)”), Kazakh шағыр (şağyr, “blue/grey eyes”), Bashkir шағыр (şağır, “whitish”), etc.

The senses ”wine, intoxicating drink” seems to have a different etymology. Cognate with Kipchak [script needed] (čager, “wine”) (attested in Codex Cumanicus), Turkmen çakyr (“wine”), Azerbaijani çaxır (“wine”), etc.

Adjective

چاقر • (çakır)

1. light blue, grey
2. blue striped
3. blue eyed

Noun

چاقر • (çakır)

1. wine, any intoxicating drink
2. a clattering sound
3. merlin, stone falcon

Derived terms

• چاقرجه (çakırca)
• چاقرجی (çakırcı)
• چاقر پنچه (çakır pençe)
• چاقر چوقور (çakır çukur)
• چاقر دكنی (çakır dikeni)
• چاقر طوغان (çakır doğan)
• چاقر قنات (çakır kanat)
• چاقر كوز (çakır göz)
• چاقر كیف (çakır keyf)

Descendants

• Turkish: çakır
• → Armenian: չախըռ (čʻaxəṙ)
• → Greek: τσακίρης (tsakíris, “blue-eyed, or blue-gray”), τσακίρικος (tsakírikos, “blue-eyed, or blue-gray; attractive”)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “706”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 705
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاقر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 461