چاپاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

چپاق (çapak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čalpak (“dirt, filth”), a development of *čalp- (“to hit, strike; to make something piebald or multi-colored”); cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (çalpak, “dirt”) and Uyghur چاپاق (chapaq, “fump, (eye) gum”).

Noun

چاپاق • (çapak)

sleep, gound, inspissated mucus in the eyelids

Derived terms

چاپاق بالغی (çapak balığı, “carp bream”)
چاپاقلنمق (çapaklanmak, “to become gummy”)
چاپاقلو (çapaklı, “that has sleep on the eyelids”)

Descendants

Turkish: çapak
→ Armenian: չափախ (čʻapʻax)

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