چالدران

Ottoman Turkish

Çaldıran district

Etymology 1

According to Nishanyan, from a vulgarized form of Northern Kurdish çil (“forty”) + dêrên (“churches”).

Alternative forms

• چالدیران (çaldıran)

Proper noun

چالدران • (çaldıran)

1. Chaldiran (a plain in West Azerbaijan, Iran), the site of a battle between the Ottomans and the Safavids
2. Çaldıran (a town and district in Van province, Turkey), near the site of the battle

   Synonym: بایزید آغا (bayazıd ağa) (historical)

Descendants

• Turkish: Çaldıran
• → English: Chaldiran
• → French: Tchaldiran

Further reading

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• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Çaldıran”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چالدران”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 708
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Çaldıran”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 167

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

چالدران • (çaldıran)

1. imperfect participle of چالدرمق (çaldırmak, “to cause to be struck, played, etc.”)