چناق قلعه
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- چناق قلعهسی (Çanak Kalʼesi)
Etymology
From چناق (çanak, “earthenware pot, bowl”) + قلعه (kalʼe, “fortress”), so named from the great manufacture of coarse earthenware carried on in and around the town.
Proper noun
Descendants
- → Arabic: جَنَق قَلْعة (janaq qalʕa)
- → Azerbaijani: Çanaqqala
- → Central Kurdish: چاناققەلعە (çanaqqel'e)
- → Persian: چاناققلعه (čânâq qal'e)
- Turkish: Çanakkale
- → Arabic: جَانَاكَالِي (jānākālī)
- → Armenian: Չանաքքալե (Čʻanakʻkʻale)
- → English: Çanakkale
- → Greek: Τσανάκκαλε (Tsanákkale)
- → Japanese: チャナッカレ (Chanakkare)
- → Lithuanian: Čanakalė
- → Mandarin: 恰納卡萊 / 恰纳卡莱 (Qiànàkǎlái)
- → Northern Kurdish: Çanakkale
- → Russian: Чанаккале́ (Čanakkalé)
- → Ukrainian: Чанаккале́ (Čanakkalé)
Further reading
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Çanakkale”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چناق قلعه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Çanakkale”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 170