چارشف

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چارشاف (çârşaf)

Etymology

From چادر شب (çâdır-ı şeb), from Persian چادر شب (čâdar-e šab).

Noun

چارشف • (çârşaf)

1. bedsheet
2. large veil that covers the entire body
3. (Islam) jilbab

Descendants

• Turkish: çarşaf
• → Albanian: çarçaf, çarshaf
• → Arabic: شَرْشَف (šaršaf)
• → Armenian: չարշաֆ (čʻaršaf), չարշավ (čʻaršav), չարսաֆ (čʻarsaf), չարսափ (čʻarsapʻ), շարշափ (šaršapʻ)
• → Aromanian: circeafe, cirshafe
• → Bashkir: шаршау (şarşaw)
• → Bulgarian: чарша́ф (čaršáf)
• → Greek: τσαρτσάφι (tsartsáfi)
• → Northern Kurdish: çarşef, çarşev
• → Macedonian: чаршаф (čaršaf)
• → Romanian: cearșaf, cearceaf
• → Serbo-Croatian: čàršaf / ча̀ршаф

References

• Vollers, Karl (1896) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 50, page 614
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “488. čirčáfe.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 110