چاغ
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- չաղ (çağ) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *čiāk (“time”). Possibly related to Mongolian.[1] See Azerbaijani çağ for more.
Noun
[edit]چاغ • (çağ)
- time
- season, period
- Synonym: موسم
- كل چاغی ― gül çağı ― spring (literally, “season of rose”)
- age
- Synonym: یاش
- یكرمی چاغنده بر دلیقانلی ― yirmi çağında bir delikanlı ― a twenty year-old lad
- اورته چاغده بر آدم ― orta çağda bir adam ― a middle-aged man
- (figuratively) the right time
- a cycle of 12 years
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çağ”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çağ⁵”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 851
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 460
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 704
- Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “چاغ”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 498