چیزمه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چزمه (çizme)
• չիզմէ (çizme) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Derived from چیزمك (çizmek, “to tear”), where other Turkic languages have چكمه (çekme) from چكمك (çekmek, “to pull”) in this sense, like Azerbaijani çəkmə from çəkmək.

Noun

چیزمه • (çizme)

1. boot

Descendants

• Turkish: çizme
• → Albanian: çizme
• → Arabic: جَزْمَة (jazma)
• → Armenian: ճիզմե (čizme), ջըզմա̈ (ǰəzmä)
• → Bulgarian: чи́зма (čízma)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: cizme, cezme

  → Central Kurdish: چِزمە (çizme)

• → Macedonian: чизма (čizma)
• → Persian: چزمه (čezme)
• → Serbo-Croatian: чи̏зма / čȉzma, čižma
  • → Hungarian: csizma
    • → Czech: čižma
    • → Polish: ciżma, ciżemka
    • → Romanian: cizmă
    • → Slovak: čižma

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چزمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 720