چراق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (čerâġ).

Noun

چراق • (çırak)

apprentice, novice
Synonym: اوشاق (uşak)
pupil
pensioner

Derived terms

چراقلق (çıraklık)

Descendants

Turkish: çırak
→ Albanian: çirak
→⇒ Egyptian Arabic: إشراقة (išrāqa), أشراقة (ašrāqa)
→ Armenian: չրախ (čʻrax), չրաղ (čʻraġ)
→ Aromanian: cirac, cireac
→ Bulgarian: чира́к (čirák)
→ Crimean Tatar: şıraq
→ Greek: τσιράκι (tsiráki)
→ Macedonian: чирак (čirak)
→ Romanian: cirac
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: чѝрак

Latin script: čìrak