چوملك

Ottoman Turkish

چوملك

Alternative forms

• چولمك (çölmek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöŋgek (“a kettle, pitcher”); further origin is unknown. Cognate with Azerbaijani çölmə, Chuvash чӳлмек (čülmek), Crimean Tatar çülmek, Kazakh шөлмэк (şölmék), Kyrgyz чөлмөк (cölmök), Nogai шоьлмек (şölmek), Tatar чүлмәк (çülmäk).

Noun

چوملك • (çömlek) (definite accusative چوملكی (çömleği), plural چوملكلر (çömlekler))

1. marmite, pipkin, an earthen pot of various designs, usually potbellied

Derived terms

• چناق چوملك (çanak çömlek, “pots and pans”)
• چوملك دیبی (çömlek dibi, “food from the bottom of a pot”)
• چوملك كبابی (çömlek kebabı, “meat roasted in a pipkin”)
• چوملكجی (çömlekci, “maker or seller of pots”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çömlek
• → Armenian: չէօմլէկ (čʻēōmlēk) — Constantinople
• → Bulgarian: чомле́к (čomlék)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çömlek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1044
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چوملك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 192a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوملك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cacabus”, 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 129
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوملك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1684
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çömlek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوملك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 740