چفتجیلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چفتجی (çiftci, “farmer, husbandman”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, lük, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

چفتجیلك • (çiftcilik)

1. agriculture, husbandry, agronomy, the occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer

   Synonyms: دهقانی (dihkânî), فلاحت (felahat)

Descendants

• Turkish: çiftçilik
• → Albanian: çiftçillëk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çiftçilik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 987
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چفتجیلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 184a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چفتجیلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 471
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چفتجیلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1625
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چفتجیلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 723