چاپراز

Ottoman Turkish

چاپراز

Etymology

Vulgarized form of Persian چپ راست (čap-râst, “left–right; diagonal, crossed”), from چپ (čap, “left”) + راست (râst, “right”).

Noun

چاپراز • (çapraz)

1. clasp, a fastener or holder made of metal, particularly one that clasps
2. belt fastening with a metal clasp, formerly used by certain of the janissaries
3. frog, a fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button that fits through a loop
4. (by extension) kind of waistcoat or jacket adorned with frogs or similar fasteners
5. (in general) any pair of things that join after the manner of clasps or frogs
6. (in board games) square of a chessboard; table on a backgammon board

Derived terms

• مارانغوز چاپرازی (marangoz çaprazı, “saw file”)
• چاپرازلامه (çaprazlama, “St. Andrew's Cross”)
• چاپرازلو (çaprazlı, “furnished with clasps or frogs”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çapraz
• → Armenian: չափռազ (čʻapʻṙaz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çapraz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 886
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چاپراز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 174a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاپراز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 456
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاپراز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1537
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çapraz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاپراز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 698