چفتلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چفت (çift, “pair, team; yoke”) +‎ ـلك (-lik).

Noun

چفتلك • (çiftlik) (definite accusative چفتلكی (çiftliği), plural چفتلكلر (çiftlikler) or چفتلكات (çiftlikât))

  1. the quality of being a pair, team, or yoke, the quality of a fellow in a pair
  2. journey, the amount of land a single plow of oxen can plow in one day
  3. farm, ranch, grange, any estate where agricultural activities take place
  4. (historical) kind of agricultural estate treated more landlord-like than a تیمار (timar) and cultivated by de facto serfs [from the 16th century, peak in the 18th]

Derived terms

  • چفتلك كتخداسی (çiftlik kethüdası, “farmer”)
  • چفتلكات همایون (çiftlikât-ı hümayun, “the imperial agricultural estates”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: çiftlik
  • → Albanian: çiflig
  • → Arabic: جِفْتْلِك (jiftlik), جِفْلِك (jiflik), شِفْتْلِك (šiftlik), شِفْلِك (šiflik)
  • → Armenian: չիֆլիկ (čʻiflik), չիֆթլիկ (čʻiftʻlik)
  • → Bulgarian: чифли́к (čiflík)
  • → Greek: τσιφλίκι (tsiflíki)
  • → Hungarian: csiflik
  • → Macedonian: чифлиг (čiflig), чифлик (čiflik)
  • → Romanian: ciftlâc
  • → Russian: чифтлик (čiftlik)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чѝтлук, чѝфлук, чѝвлук, чѝфтлук
    Latin script: čìtluk, čìfluk, čìvluk, čìftluk
    • → Hungarian: csivlik[1]

Proper noun

چفتلك • (çiftlik)

  1. Çiftlik (a town and district of Niğde Province, Turkey)
    Synonym: ملندوز (melendiz, melendüz) (historical)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 540

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