çağ

From Proto-Turkic *čāk (“time”). According to Doerfer, the sense 'time' is a later development, the original sense being 'measure ("Maß einer Sache")'.^[1] For the semantic development in adjectival senses, see Persian چاق. Cognate with Turkish çağ, Turkmen çag, Crimean Tatar çağ (“era”), Tatar чак (çaq), Uzbek chogʻ, Uyghur چاغ (chagh, “era”), Chuvash чух (čuh) (←Tatar), Yakut сах (saq).

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃɑɣ], [t͡sɑɣ]

çağ (definite accusative çağı, plural çağlar)

1. time

   Synonyms: vaxt, zaman

   • 2012 May 3, Ə. Saadi, Quran Təfsiri‎^[2], retrieved 2 February 2018:

     Onlara tapşırılmışdı ki, gecənin qaranlıq çağında yola çıxsınlar və istirahət üçün belə dayanmadan hərəkət etsinlər.

     It was commanded to them, that they would set out at the darkest time of the night and keep moving without stopping for rest.

2. (figurative) days, hour, time

   Synonyms: vaxt, zaman, zəmanə, an, dövr, əyyam

   Yaşlı adamıq, bütün həyat boyu işləməmişik ki, ömrümüzün bu çağında evsiz-eşiksiz qalaq.

   We are old people, we didn't work our all life [only] to be left homeless these days of our lifetime.

   Komandir müharibənin ən ümidsiz çağında belə döyüşçüləri ruhlandırmağa çalışırdı.

   Even in the hopeless hour of the war, the commander was making his best to inspire the troops.

3. (Goygol) the space between the joints on a finger
4. (rare) spoke (part of the wheel)

   Synonym: dəndənə

• çağdaş (“contemporary”)

çağ (comparative daha çağ, superlative ən çağ)

1. healthy, peppy, full of energy (especially despite old age)
2. plump, well-fed

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kök

3. cheerful, happy, joyful

   Synonym: saz

• → Armenian: չաղ (čʻaġ)

çağ

1. era

From Ottoman Turkish چاغ (çağ), from Proto-Turkic *čāk (“time”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaɰ/, [t͡ʃɑː]

çağ (definite accusative çağı, plural çağlar)

1. era, epoch, age, period

   altın çağ ― golden age

2. age (one of the stages of life)

• çağdaş
• çağcıl