چرچوه

Ottoman Turkish

چرچوه

Alternative forms

• چرچیوه (çerçive)
• չէրչէվէ (çerçeve), չէրչիվէ (çerçive) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Vulgarized form of Persian چار چوبه (čâr čube, “four sticks; quadrilateral”), from چار (čâr, “four”) + چوبه (čube, “stick, staff, shaft”).

Noun

چرچوه • (çerçeve) (definite accusative چرچوه‌یی (çerçeveyi), plural چرچوه‌لر (çerçeveler))

1. frame, any rigid, rectangular mounting for paper, paintings, slate, etc.
2. sash, casement, the opening part of a window containing the windowpanes
3. doorframe, doorcase, the architectural frame into which a door is fitted

   Synonym: سوا (sıva, süva)

Derived terms

• آینه چرچوه‌سی (ayna çerçevesi, “mirror frame”)
• رسم چرچوه‌سی (resm çerçevesi, “frame of a painting”)
• چرچوه كاغدی (çerçeve kâğıdı, “paper used in lieu of glass”)
• چرچوه‌جی (çerçeveci, “framer”)
• چرچوه‌لتمك (çerçeveletmek, “to make or let be framed”)
• چرچوه‌لمك (çerçevelemek, “to frame”)
• چرچوه‌لنمك (çerçevelenmek, “to be framed”)
• چرچوه‌لی (çerçeveli, “framed”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çerçeve
• → Armenian: չէրչիվէ (čʻērčʻivē), չարչվա (čʻarčʻva)
• → Romanian: cercevea

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چرچیوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 582
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çerçeve”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 936
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چرچوه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 181b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چرچوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 469
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Retinaculum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1477
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چرچوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1598
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çerçeve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چرچوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 717