چیچكلك

Ottoman Turkish

چیچكلك

Etymology

From چیچك (çiçek, “flower”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk).

Noun

چیچكلك • (çiçeklik)

1. flowerpot, a pot filled with soil in which plants are grown

   Synonym: ساقسی (saksı)

2. flowerbed, a part of a garden or park in which flowers are grown

Descendants

• Turkish: çiçeklik
• → Armenian: չիչէքլիխ (čʻičʻēkʻlix)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çiçeklik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 985
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چیچكلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 484
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چچكلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1584
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیچكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 743