چوقه‌دار

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

چوقدار (çokadar, çohadar, çukadar, çuhadar)

Etymology

چوقه (çoka, çoha, çuka, çuha, “broadcloth”) +‎ ـدار (-dar, “-bearer”).

Noun

چوقه‌دار • (çokadar, çohadar, çukadar, çuhadar) (definite accusative چوقه‌داری (çokadarı, çohadarı, çukadarı, çuhadarı), plural چوقه‌دارلر (çokadarlar, çohadarlar, çukadarlar, çuhadarlar))

lackey, footman, a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.

Derived terms

باش چوقه‌دار (baş çokadar, “head-footman”)
صالمه چوقه‌دار (salma çokadar, “secret police agent”)
قاپو چوقه‌داری (kapı çokadarı, “kind of messenger at the Sublime Porte”)
چوقه‌دار آغا (çokadar ağa, “special kind of foot equerry”)

Descendants

Turkish: çuhadar
→ Arabic: جُوخَدَار (jūḵadār) (a surname)
→ Bulgarian: чохада́р (čohadár)
→ Hungarian: csokadár
→ Romanian: ciohodar
→ Russian: чохада́р (čoxadár)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: чоха̀да̄р

Latin script: čohàdār

Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چوقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 611
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çuhadar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1055
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوقدار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 479
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوقه‌دار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 738