چغتای

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠶ (čaɣatay).

Proper noun

چغتای (čağatay)

  1. a male given name of historical usage, most famously borne by the Mongol ruler Chagatai Khan (1183–1242), second son of Genghis Khan and first khan of the Chagatai Khanate, a medieval Mongol and later Turkicized khanate of Central Asia (divided after the 14th century).
  2. Chagatai Tajiks, an ethnic group in Uzbekistan

Adjective

چغتای (čağatay)

  1. honest, sincere

Descendants

  • Uyghur: چاغاتاي (chaghatay)
    • → Russian: Чагата́й (Čagatáj)

Further reading

  • Vámbery, Ármin (1867) “چغتای”, in Ćagataische sprachstudien‎[1] (in German), Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, page 278
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