چلك

See also: چلک and چلڭ

Chagatai

Alternative forms

• (plume): چلنك (çelenk) (more common in this sense)

Etymology

Compare Ottoman Turkish چلك (çelek) and Persian چلک (čolk, čelk, “ladle, skimmer”).

Noun

چلك (çelek)

1. wooden bucket, container cut from a tree-stump
2. major feather of a wing, plume
   1. a major feather of a wing, plume, worn as ornament, plume as well as aigrette

References

• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “چلك”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 287
• Ünlü, Suat (2013) Çağatay Türkçesi Sözlüğü, Konya: Eğitim Yayınevi, page 235
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 364

Ottoman Turkish

چلك

مباشرله چلنك

عسكری چلنك

Etymology 1

Compare Chagatai چلك (çelek), Ottoman Turkish چلیك (çelik, “tipcat”), and Persian چلک (čolk, čelk, “ladle, skimmer”).

Alternative forms

• (plume): چلنك (çelenk) — more common in this sense
• (plume): چلنك (çılınk), چلڭ (çılıñ)

Noun

چلك • (çelek)

1. wooden bucket, container cut from a tree-stump

   Synonym: قوغه (koğa, kova)

2. major feather of a wing, plume
3. a major feather of a wing, plume, worn as decoration, plume as well as aigrette
4. an institutionalized military decoration until the Tanzimat era in the form of a jewelled aigrette

Descendants

• Turkish: çelek (“wooden bucket”) (dialectal)

Etymology 2

Noun

چلك • (çilek)

1. Alternative spelling of چیلك (çilek, “strawberry”)

Etymology 3

Noun

چلك • (çelik)

1. Alternative spelling of چلیك (çelik, “tipcat; steel”)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1642
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 364
• Chelengk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia