چری

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čerig (“army; soldier”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (čérig, “army”), Azerbaijani çəri (“army”), Chuvash ҫар (śar, “army”), Kyrgyz черик (cerik, “soldier”), Uyghur چېرىك (chërik, “soldier”), Uzbek cherik (“army”), and, more distantly, with Persian چریک (čerik, “guerrilla”), Mongolian цэрэг (cereg, “soldier”) and Hungarian sereg.

Noun

چری • (çeri)

  1. army, a highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground operations
    Synonyms: اردو (ordu), جند (cünd), جیش (ceyiş), عسكر (ʼasker), لشكر (leşker)
  2. soldier, a member of a ground-based army, of any rank, especially an enlisted one
    Synonym: عسكر (ʼasker)

Derived terms

  • چری باشی (çeri başı, “commander”)
  • یڭیچری (yeñiçeri, “janissary”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: çeri

Further reading

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