چیمچك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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Particularly: “Diminutive of چیم (“grass”)?”

Noun

چیمچك • (çimçek)

a small sparrow

Descendants

Turkish: çimçek

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیمچك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 747

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