چانطه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

چانته (çanta)

Etymology

Metathesized form of Persian (tanče), (tamče, “wallet, provision bag”), from the verb (tanjidan, “to roll up”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃanta/

Noun

چانطه • (çanta) (definite accusative چانطه‌یی (çantayı), plural چانطه‌لر (çantalar))

any kind of pouch, bag, purse, or case made of leather or similar material
Synonym: طوربه (torba)
carpetbag, a traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and used as a luggage

Derived terms

آوجی چانطه‌سی (avcı çantası, “game bag”)
دكز چانطه‌سی (deñiz çantası, “seabag”)
عسكر چانطه‌سی (ʼasker çantası, “soldier's knapsack”)
پاره چانطه‌سی (para çantası, “purse”)
چانطه‌جی (çantacı, “dealer in or user of pouches”)
چانطه‌ده ككلیك (çantada keklik, “bird in the hand, sure thing”)
چوبان چانطه‌سی (çoban çantası, “shepherd's purse”)
یول چانطه‌سی (yol çantası, “travel bag”)

Descendants

Turkish: çanta
→ Albanian: çantë
→ Arabic: شَنْطة (šanṭa)
- → Gulf Arabic: جنطة (janṭa)
→ Armenian: չանթա (čʻantʻa)
→ Aromanian: čantă
→ Bulgarian: ча́нта (čánta)
→ Georgian: ჩანთა (čanta)
→ Greek: τσάντα (tsánta)
→ Ladino: chanta
→ Macedonian: чанта (čanta)
→ Persian: چنته (čante)
→ Romanian: geantă
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ча̏нта

Latin script: čȁnta
→ Turoyo: ܫ̰ܰܢܛܰܐ (čanṭa), ܫܰܢܛܰܐ (šanṭa)

Further reading

Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چانطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 572
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çanta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 881
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چانته”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 178a
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چانطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 465
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çanta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “439.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[3], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 107
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چانطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 711
Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چانطه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 346