چاتال

Ottoman Turkish

چاتال

Alternative forms

• چتال (çatal)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čatal (“fork”), from *čat- (“to bring together”), the same root of چاتمق (çatmak, “to bring together”).

Noun

چاتال • (çatal)

1. prong, tine, a thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork
2. (by extension) fork, a utensil with spikes used to put food into the mouth
3. (nautical) breasthook, a horizontal timber fitted in the bows of a ship

Adjective

چاتال • (çatal)

1. forked, bifurcated, divided into two or more branches

Derived terms

• ایرماق چاتالی (ırmak çatalı, “forks of a river”)
• صیغین چاتالی (sığın çatalı, “antlers”)
• چاتال آناختار (çatal anahtar, “kind of turnscrew”)
• چاتال ایش (çatal iş, “dilemma”)
• چاتال بیل (çatal bil, “digging fork”)
• چاتال دستك (çatal destek, “troublesome pest”)
• چاتال طرناق (çatal tırnak, “cloven hoof”)
• چاتال قازق (çatal kazık, “matter that is involved in difficulties”)
• چاتال چكیچ (çatal çekiç, “kind of hammer”)
• چاتاللاندیرمق (çatallandırmak, “to bifurcate”)
• چاتاللانمق (çatallanmak, “to become bifurcated”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çatal
• → Albanian: çatall
• → Armenian: չաթալ (čʻatʻal)
• → Georgian: ჩათალი (čatali) — Chveneburi
• → Iraqi Arabic: چطل (çaṭal)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çatal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 897
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چاتال”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 174b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاتال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 456
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Furca”, 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 633
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاتال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1540
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çatal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاتال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 700