چناق

Ottoman Turkish

چناق

Alternative forms

• چاناق (çanak), چناغ (çanag)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čïnïańak (“cup, bowl”), a compound of Persian چینی (čini, “porcelain”) + Proto-Turkic *ańak (“vessel, cup”). Cognate with Azerbaijani çanaq, Bashkir сынаяҡ (sınayaq), Kazakh шыныаяқ (şynyaäq), Kyrgyz чыны (cını), Southern Altai чана (čana), Tatar чынаяк (çınayak), Turkmen çanak and Uzbek chanoq.

Noun

چناق • (çanak)

1. bowl, earthen pot, a container used to hold, mix or present food

   Synonym: كاسه (kâse)

Derived terms

• باش چناغی (baş çanağı, “skull”)
• دیلنجی چناغی (dilenci çanağı, “begging bowl, alms-bowl”)
• چناق اوزنگی (çanak üzenği, “shovel-stirrup”)
• چناق قلعه (Çanak Kal'e, “a city in Turkey”)
• چناق چوملك (çanak çömlek, “pots and pans”)
• چناقجی (çanakcı, “potter”)
• چناقلق (çanaklık, “place where pottery is made”)

 

Related terms

• آیاغ (ayag, “goblet, chalice”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çanak
• → Albanian: çanak
• → Abkhaz: ачанах (ačanax)
• → Armenian: չանախ (čʻanax), չանաղ (čʻanaġ)
• → Aromanian: cinácã
• → Bulgarian: ча́нак (čának)
• → Greek: τσανάκα (tsanáka), τσανάκι (tsanáki)
• → Georgian: ჩანახი (čanaxi)
• → Ladino: chanaka
• → Macedonian: чанак (čanak)
• → Romanian: ceanac, cenac
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ча̀нак

  Latin script: čànak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çanak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 878
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چناق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چناق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 475
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scutella”, 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 1525
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چناق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1659
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çanak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چناق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731