چوجق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• չօճուգ (çocuk) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čōč- (“young pig”).

Noun

چوجق • (çocuk) (definite accusative چوجغی (çocuğu), plural چوجقلر (çocuklar))

1. pigling, piglet
2. child, brat, bairn

Descendants

• Turkish: çocuk

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوجق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1673
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوجق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 734