چناق قلعه
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
edit- چناق قلعهسی (Çanak Kalʿesi)
Etymology
editFrom چناق (çanak, “earthenware pot, bowl”) + قلعه (kalʿe, “fortress”), so named from the great manufacture of coarse earthenware carried on in and around the town.
Proper noun
edit- Çanakkale (a city and province in the West Marmara region, Turkey)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Çanakkale”, 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) “چناق قلعه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Çanakkale”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 170