چولپا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چولپه (çolpa), چورپا (çorpa)

Etymology

Usually explained as Persian چول (čūl, “bent”) +‎ Persian پا (pā, “leg, foot”).

Adjective

چولپا • (çolpa)

1. having one defective foot
2. (of a horse) that trots, canters, or gallops, left foot foremost
3. (figuratively, of a person) clumsy and uncouth

Descendants

• Turkish: çolpa, çulpa, çolpaz, çolbaz
• → Armenian: չոլփա (čʻolpʻa), չոլփազ (čʻolpʻaz)
• → Laz: ჩორფა (çorpa)

References

• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “çolpa”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2017) “çorpa¹”, in Ötüken Osmanlı Türkçesi Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, →ISBN, page 323a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چولپا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çolpa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چولپا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739
• Tietze, Andreas (2009) “çolpa/çulpa”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 528–529
• Tietze, Andreas (2009) “çorpa/çurpa”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 531a