چادر

چادر (çadir)

1. tent
2. chador

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چادر (çadır).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑːdɪr/

چادر (čādir) m

1. tent

• چتر (çatır)

Attested in Turkic from the 11th century, from Proto-Turkic *čātïr, from Middle Persian čādur (“sheet, veil”) (modern Persian چادر), ultimately from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra).

چادر • (çadır)

1. tent, a portable lodge made of skin or canvas used for sheltering people

   Synonyms: اوتاق (otağ), چرگه (çerge), خیمه (hayme)

2. balloon, an object designed to transport people through the air
3. chador, a loose robe that envelopes the whole person, worn by Muslim women

• Turkish: çadır, çador
• → Albanian: çadër
• → Armenian: չատըր (čʻatər), չա̈դըր (čʻädər)
• → Czech: čádor
• → Hungarian: sátor
  • → Macedonian: шатор (šator)
  • → Polish: szatra
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: šator

    Cyrillic script: шатор

• → Russian: шатёр (šatjór)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (“tent”)

  Cyrillic script: чадор

  Latin script: čador

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çadır2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 849
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چادر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 175a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چادر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 458
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tentorium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1661
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چادر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1542
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çadır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چادر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 701

From Middle Persian čādur (“sheet, veil”), from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra)(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

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چادر • (čādur, čādar / čâdor) (plural چادرها (čādur-hā, čādar-hā / čâdor-hâ), Tajik spelling чодар)

1. tent

   Synonym: گیان (guyān / goyân)

3. chador (a large single piece of cloth worn as a covering over the clothing)
5. (chiefly Dari, Tajik) scarf, veil
6. awning

• sense 2 & 3: In Eastern varieties of Persian, چادر (čādar / čâdor) may be used to ref to scarfs and veils broadly, including scarves loosely worn around the head or neck. However, referring to loose scarves as چادر (čādar / čâdor) would be inappropriate in Iranian Persian.

Some of these may descend from the Middle Persian ancestor. In particular, the word is recorded in an 11th century dictionary of Turkic languages.

• “چادر”, in The Wilson English - Dari Dictionary (Webonary), SIL International, 2013
• “чодар”, in Таджикский Словарь [Tadžikskij Slovarʹ, Tajik-Russian Dictionary], 2 April 2022

From Classical Persian چادر (čādar). Compare Turkish çadır.

چادَر • (cādar) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਚਾਦਰ)

1. chador
2. covering
3. bedspread
4. bed sheet

2=cādar

چادر (čâder)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) tent
2. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) chador (a large single piece of cloth worn as a covering over the clothing)

Borrowed from Classical Persian چادر (čādar, čādur). Compare Assamese চাদৰ (sador), Bengali চাদর (cador), Gujarati ચાદર (cādar), Marathi चादर (cādar), Punjabi ਚਾਦਰ (cādar). Doublet of چھتری (chatri).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː.d̪əɾ/

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• Rhymes: -əɾ

چادَر • (cādar) f (Hindi spelling चादर)

1. covering
2. bedspread
3. bed sheet
4. chador

• → Danish: chador

• “چادر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چادر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.