چالپاره

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian چار پاره (“type of percussion instrument”, literally “four parts”).

Noun

چالپاره • (çalpara)

1. type of wooden castanets

Descendants

• Turkish: çalpara
• → Armenian: չալփարա (čʻalpʻara)
• → Romanian: geamparale

References

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “çalpara”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چالپاره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 463a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çalpara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük