چركه

Ottoman Turkish

چرگه

Alternative forms

• خرگاه (harga)
• չէրկէ (çerge) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian خرگه (xarga, “tent”).

Noun

چرگه • (çerge)

1. hut, shack, small tent, tabernacle, primitively constructed shed

   Չինկեանէ չէրկէսինտէ ըրաֆ արամա։ (Armeno-Turkish, proverb)

   Çingâne çergesinde ıraf arama.

   You cannot find a cupboard in the hut of a Gypsy.

Descendants

• Turkish: çerge
• → Albanian: cergë
• → Aromanian: čérgă
• → Bulgarian: че́рга (čérga)
• → Hungarian: cserge
• → Macedonian: черга (čerga)
• → Romani: cerha
• → Romanian: cérgă
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: че̑рга

  Latin script: čȇrga

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چرگه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1602
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خرگاه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1884
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) 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aromanskiot]‎^[3], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 107