چلك

See also: چلک and چلڭ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Compare Chagatai چلک (čäläk), Ottoman Turkish چلیك (çelik, “tipcat”), and Persian چلک (čolk, čelk, “ladle, skimmer”).

Alternative forms

  • (plume): چلنك (çelenk) — more common in this sense
  • (plume): چلنك (çılınk), چلڭ (çılıñ)

Noun

چلك • (çelek)

  1. wooden bucket, container cut from a tree-stump
    Synonym: قوغه (koğa, kova)
  2. major feather of a wing, plume
  3. a major feather of a wing, plume, worn as decoration, plume as well as aigrette
  4. an institutionalized military decoration until the Tanzimat era in the form of a jewelled aigrette
Descendants
  • Turkish: çelek (“wooden bucket”) (dialectal)

Etymology 2

Noun

چلك • (çilek)

  1. alternative spelling of چیلك (çilek, “strawberry”)

Etymology 3

Noun

چلك • (çelik)

  1. alternative spelling of چلیك (çelik, “tipcat; steel”)

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[1], Vienna, column 1642
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “چلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 364
  • Chelengk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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