چوقه‌دار

Ottoman Turkish

چوقه‌دار

Alternative forms

• چوقدار

Etymology

چوقه (çoka, çoha, çuka, çuha, “broadcloth”) +‎ ـدار (-dar, “-bearer”).

Noun

چوقه‌دار • (çokadar, çohadar, çukadar, çuhadar) (plural چوقه‌دارلر (çokadarlar, çohadarlar, çukadarlar, çuhadarlar))

1. valet, lackey, bearer

Descendants

• Turkish: çuhadar
• → Arabic: جُوخَدَار (jūḵadār) (a surname)
• → Bulgarian: чохада́р (čohadár)
• → Hungarian: csokadár
• → Romanian: ciohodar
• → Russian: чохада́р (čoxadár)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: чоха̀да̄р

  Latin script: čohàdār

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوقدار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 479
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوقدار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 737
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوقه‌دار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 738