chiflik

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چفتلك (çiftlik).

Noun

chiflik m (Hebrew spelling ג׳יפ׳ליק, plural chiflikes)

1. (countable) farm (a place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock)

   Coordinate terms: agrikolo, agrikultor, agrikultura

   • 19th century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, chapter 42, in Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, editors, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎^[1], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 290:

     Yo tuve kuantas vezes de tener ami lado de estos esklavos a tanyer kon eyos en los konakes en chiflikes de AbduRahman bey, ke las eredo de su padre Ahmet bey, syendo el era el kapo de la armada de Kasandra.

     I often have had some of these slaves by my side playing music in Abdur Rahman Bey’s mansions and farms, who inherited them from his father, Ahmet Bey, former army chief in Kasandra.

   • 1999, Matilda Koén-Sarano, לז׳נדאס: אגדות וסיפורי מוסר מן המסורת היהודית־ספרדית‎^[2], נור, page 59:

     Avían tres amigos: el uno era merkader, el sigundo era doktor i el tresero tinía chiflik.

     There were three friends: one a merchant, the second a physician, and the third had a farm.

   • 2017 June 12, Amor Ayala, Los sefardíes de Bulgaria: Estudio y edición crítica de la obra «Notas istorikas» de Avraam Moshe Tadjer‎^[3], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 420:

     Moshe Tadjer resivyo el konsejo, torno a su kaza i al 18 yanuar 1878, kuando los rusos okuparon la sivdad, munchas kazas de turkos i djidyos fueron despojadas, ma la kaza i el chiflik de Moshe Tadjer fueron guadradas por guardias delantre la puerta.

     Moshe Tadjer took the advice, returned home, and on January 18, 1878, when the Russians occupied the city, many Turkish and Jewish houses were despoiled, yet Moshe Tadjer’s house and farm were protected by guards before the door.