چیویت

Ottoman Turkish

Indigofera tinctoria

رنگ چیویت

Alternative forms

• چویت (çivit), چیوید (çivid), چوید (çivid), چیگیت (çiğit), چگیت (çiğit)

Etymology

Cognate to Kyrgyz чивит (civit), Crimean Tatar чивит, çivit … This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

چیویت • (çivit)

1. indigo, Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera gen. et spp.
2. indigo dye

Descendants

• Turkish: çivit
• → Albanian: çivit
• → Armenian: չիվիտ (čʻivit), չվիթ (čʻvitʻ)
• → Macedonian: чивит (čivit)
• → Romanian: civit
• → Serbo-Croatian: (regional)

  Cyrillic script: чѝвит

  Latin script: čìvit

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çivit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیویت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 748