چاغشیر

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From the root of Turkish çakışmak (to fit snugly), probably referring to the tightening around the knee joints of these otherwise loose trousers.

Noun

چاغشیر • (čaɣšïr)

  1. a kind of baggy trousers

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: çaxçur, carcur
  • Ottoman Turkish: چاقشیر (čaqšïr), چقشیر (čaqšïr), چاقشور (čaqšur), چاغشر (čaɣšïr), چاخشور (čaxšur), چاخشیر (čaxšïr), چخشیر (čaxšïr)
    • Turkish: çakşır, (dialectal) çaşkır
    • Armenian: չաշխուր (čʻašxur), չեխշուր (čʻexšur), չաշխըր (čʻašxər)
    • German: Tschakschir
    • Greek: σαξίρια (saxíria)
    • Moroccan Arabic: تقشيرة (taqšīra)
    • Romanian: ceacșiri
    • Russian: чикчи́ры pl (čikčíry), чикче́ры pl (čikčéry)
    • Serbo-Croatian: čàkšire / ча̀кшире pl
  • Arabic: جَقْشِير (jaqšīr), شَخْشُور (šaḵšūr), شَخْشِير (šaḵšīr)
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: çexşûr
  • Persian: چاقشر (čâqšor), چاقشور (čâqšur), چاقچور (čâqčur), چقشور (čaqšur), چخجیر (čaxjir), چاهچور (čâhčur)

Further reading

  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1048, pages 29–31
  • Stachowski, Marek (2019) “çakşır”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, pages 105–106
  • “çağşır”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎[2] (in Turkish), volume III, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1967, pages 793–794