چنار

Khalaj

Noun

چِنار (çinâr) (definite accusative چِنارؽ, plural چِنارلار)

1. Arabic spelling of çinâr (“oriental plane”)

Declension

Declension of چنار

	singular	plural
nominative	چنار	چنارلار
genitive	چنارؽݧ	چنارلارؽݧ
dative	چنارقا	چنارلارقا
definite accusative	چنارؽ	چنارلارؽ
locative	چنارچا	چنارلارچا
ablative	چناردا	چنارلاردا
instrumental	چنارلا	چنارلارلا
equative	چناروارا	چنارلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

چنار

Alternative forms

• صنار (sınar) — from Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چنار (čenâr), itself from Middle Persian cynʾl (činār).

Noun

چنار • (çınar)

1. oriental plane, chinar, any deciduous tree of the species Platanus orientalis

Descendants

• Turkish: çınar
• → Albanian: çinar
• → Armenian: չընար (čʻənar)
• → Bulgarian: чина́р (činár)
• → Greek: τσινάρι (tsinári)
• → Macedonian: чинар (činar)

Çınar district

Proper noun

چنار • (çınar)

1. Çınar (a town and district in Diyarbakır province, Turkey)

   Synonym: خان آقپیكار (han akpıñar) (historical)

Descendants

• Turkish: Çınar

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çınar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 967
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چنار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چنار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 475
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Platanus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1306
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چنار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1658
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çınar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Çınar”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چنار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Çınar”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[6], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 184

Persian

Alternative forms

• چنال (čenâl), صنار (senâr) (rare)

Etymology

From Middle Persian cynʾl (činār).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃi.ˈnɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɪ.nɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɪ.nɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɪ.nɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰi.nɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰe.nɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰi.nɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	činār
Dari reading?	činār
Iranian reading?	čenâr
Tajik reading?	činor

Noun

Dari	چنار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чинор

چنار • (čenâr) (plural چنارها (čenâr-hâ))

1. chinar, oriental plane, Platanus orientalis
2. Platanus

Adjective

چنار • (čenâr)

1. (slang) tall (of person)

Descendants

Descendants

• Armenian: չինար (čʻinar)
• Azerbaijani: çinar
• Georgian: ჩინარი (činari)
• → Gujarati: ચિનાર (cinār)
• Hindi: चिनार (cinār)
• Khalaj: çinâr
• Northern Kurdish: çinar
• Malayalam: ചിനാർ (cināṟ)
• Mingrelian: ჩინარი (činari)
• Russian: чинар (činar)
• Tatar: чинар (çinar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چنار (çınar), صنار (sınar) — from Arabic
  • Turkish: çınar
  • → Albanian: çinar
  • → Armenian: չընար (čʻənar)
  • → Bulgarian: чина́р (činár)
  • → Greek: τσινάρι (tsinári)
  • → Macedonian: чинар (činar)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਚਿਨਾਰ (cinār)

  Shahmukhi script: چنار (cinār)

• Uzbek: chinor
• Urdu: چنار (činar)

See also

• چنار خاوری on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “činār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 22