چفتلك
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From چفت (çift, “pair, team”) + ـلك (-lik).
Noun edit
چفتلك • (çiftlik)
- the quality of being a pair or team
- an amount of land a single plow of oxen can plow in one day, journey
- farm, agricultural estate
چفتلك - a kind of agricultural estate treated more landlord-like than a تیمار (timar) and cultivated by de facto serfs [from the 16th century, peak in the 18th]
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Related terms edit
- خاصه چفتلك (hassa çiftlik))
- بكلك چفتلك (beylik çiftlik)
- چفتجی (çiftçi, “farmer”)
- چفتجیلك (çiftçilik, “farming”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: çiftlik
- → Albanian: çiflig
- → Arabic: جِفْتْلِك (jiftlik), جِفْلِك (jiflik), شِفْتْلِك (šiftlik), شِفْلِك (šiflik)
- → Armenian: չիֆլիկ (čʻiflik), չիֆթլիկ (čʻiftʻlik)
- → Bulgarian: чифли́к (čiflík)
- → Greek: τσιφλίκι (tsiflíki)
- → Hungarian: csiflik
- → Macedonian: чифлиг (čiflig), чифлик (čiflik)
- → Romanian: ciftlâc
- → Russian: чифтлик (čiftlik)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
References edit
- ^ Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 540
Further reading edit
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چفتلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 358