چانطه

Ottoman Turkish

چانطه

Alternative forms

• چانته (çanta)

Etymology

Vulgarization of Persian تنچه (tanče), تمچه (tamče, “wallet, provision bag”), from تنجیدن (tanjidan, “to roll up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃanta/

Noun

چانطه • (çanta)

1. any kind of pouch, bag, or case of leather or similar material

   Synonym: طوربه (torba)

2. carpetbag, a traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and used as a luggage

Derived terms

• آوجی چانطه‌سی (avcı çantası, “game bag”)
• عسكر چانطه‌سی (ʿasker çantası, “soldier's knapsack”)
• پاره چانطه‌سی (para çantası, “purse”)
• چانطه‌جی (çantacı, “dealer in or user of pouches”)
• چوبان چانطه‌سی (çoban çantası, “shepherd's purse”)
• یول چانطه‌سی (yol çantası, “travel bag”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çanta
• → Albanian: çantë
• → Arabic: شَنْطة (šanṭa)
  • → Gulf Arabic: جنطة (janṭa)
• → Armenian: չանթա (čʻantʻa)
• → Aromanian: čantă
• → Bulgarian: ча́нта (čánta)
• → Georgian: ჩანთა (čanta)
• → Greek: τσάντα (tsánta)
• → Ladino: chanta
• → Macedonian: чанта (čanta)
• → Persian: چنته (čante)
• → Romanian: geantă
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ча̏нта

  Latin script: čȁnta

• → Turoyo: ܫ̰ܰܢܛܰܐ (čanṭa), ܫܰܢܛܰܐ (šanṭa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çanta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 881
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چانته”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 178a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چانطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 465
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çanta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “439.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[3], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 107
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چانطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 711
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چانطه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 346