چاقماق

Ottoman Turkish

چاقماقلر

Alternative forms

• چاقمق (çakmak), چقماق (çakmak)
• չագմագ (çakmak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *č(i)akmak (“firestriker”), a development of *č(i)ak- (“to hit, strike”), whence چاقمق (çakmak, “to hit, strike”). Cognate with Azerbaijani çaxmaq and Uyghur چاقماق (chaqmaq).

Noun

چاقماق • (çakmak)

1. firestriker, firesteel, a piece of steel used for striking a spark

   Synonym: مقدح (mıkdah)

2. lock, flintlock, the mechanism used to initiate firing in small guns
3. (dermatology) certain kind of pimple or pustule on the face

Derived terms

• تفنك چاقماغی (tüfenk çakmağı, “flint”)
• طوپ چاقماغی (top çakmağı, “primer”)
• عرب چاقماغی (ʿarab çakmağı, “wooden apparatus for producing fire”)
• چاقماق طاشی (çakmak taşı, “flintstone”)
• چاقماق چاقمق (çakmak çakmak, “to use a firestriker”)
• چاقماقجی (çakmakcı, “maker or seller of firestrikers”)
• چاقماقسز (çakmaksız, “that has no steel for striking fire”)
• چاقماقلو (çakmaklı, “fired by a firestriker”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çakmak
• → Albanian: çakmak
• → Bulgarian: чакма́к (čakmák)
• → Georgian: ჩახმახი (čaxmaxi)
• → Greek: τσακμάκι (tsakmáki)
• → Macedonian: чакмак (čakmak)
• → Middle Armenian: չախմախ (čʻaxmax)
  • Armenian: չախմախ (čʻaxmax)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ча̀кмак

  Latin script: čàkmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çakmak4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 861
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاقماق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 461
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ignitabulum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 726
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1553
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاقماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 706

Uyghur

Other scripts
Perso-Arabic	چاقماق
Latin	‍chaqmaq‍
Cyrillic	чақмақ

Noun

چاقماق • (chaqmaq) (plural چاقماقلار (chaqmaqlar))

1. lightning
2. burning fire