چاکر
Appearance
Malay
[edit]Noun
[edit]چاکر (plural چاکر-چاکر or چاکر۲, informal 1st possessive چاکرکو, 2nd possessive چاکرمو, 3rd possessive چاکرڽ)
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sogdian *čākar (“armed retainer of a lord”), a word attested in Chinese and Arabic transcriptions.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [t͡ʃɑː.ˈkaɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰɒː.ˈkʲeɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰɔ.kʰǽɾ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | čākar |
Dari reading? | čākar |
Iranian reading? | čâker |
Tajik reading? | čokar |
Noun
[edit]چاکر • (čâker) (plural چاکرها (čâker-hâ))
- servant
- Synonym: نوکر (nowkar)
- c. 1260, Saʿdī, “Rubaʿī 74”, in دیوان سعدی [The Divān of Saʿdī][1]:
- من چاکر آنم که دلی برباید
یا دل به کسی دهد که جان آساید
آن کس که نه عاشق و نه معشوق کسیست
در ملک خدای اگر نباشد شاید- man čakar-i ān-am ki dilē birubāyad
yā dil ba kasē dihad ki jān āsāyad
ān kas ki na āšiq u na ma'šuq-i kasē-st
dar mulk-i xudāy agar na-bāšad šāyad - I am the servant of he who snatches a heart away,
Or gives his heart to someone who soothes the soul;
The person who is neither someone's lover nor beloved
Is worthy of God's kingdom, should he not be there.
- man čakar-i ān-am ki dilē birubāyad
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Assamese: চাকৰ (sakor)
- → Bengali: চাকর (cakor)
- → Gujarati: ચાકર (cākar)
- → Hindustani:
- → Malayalam: ചാക്കിരി (cākkiri)
- → Marathi: चाकर (cākar)
- → Ottoman Turkish: چاكر (çaker)
- Turkish: çaker
Further reading
[edit]- De la Vaissiere, Etienne (2006 August 15) “ČĀKAR”, in Encyclopaedia Iranica[2]