چاپراز
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]Vulgarized form of Persian چپ راست (čap-râst, “left–right; diagonal, crossed”), from چپ (čap, “left”) + راست (râst, “right”).
Noun
[edit]چاپراز • (çapraz)
- clasp, a fastener or holder made of metal, particularly one that clasps
- belt fastening with a metal clasp, formerly used by certain of the janissaries
- frog, a fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button that fits through a loop
- (by extension) kind of waistcoat or jacket adorned with frogs or similar fasteners
- (in general) any pair of things that join after the manner of clasps or frogs
- (in board games) square of a chessboard; table on a backgammon board
Derived terms
[edit]- مارانغوز چاپرازی (marangoz çaprazı, “saw file”)
- چاپرازلامه (çaprazlama, “St. Andrew's Cross”)
- چاپرازلو (çaprazlı, “furnished with clasps or frogs”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çapraz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 886
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چاپراز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 174a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاپراز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 456
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاپراز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 1537
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çapraz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاپراز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 698