چیت
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- چت (çit)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čït (“fence”).[1]
Noun
چیت • (çit) (definite accusative چیتی (çiti), plural چیتلر (çitler))
- hurdle, a movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, used for enclosing land or folding sheep
- fence, a thin, artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or encloses the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Synonym: سیاج (siyac)
- hedge, a thicket of bushes or other shrubbery planted as a fence between two portions of land or parts of a garden
- Synonym: سیاج (siyac)
Derived terms
- آرابه چیتی (araba çiti, “partition of a cart”)
- چیت اورمك (çit örmek, “to weave hurdles”)
- چیت چكمك (çit çekmek, “to construct a fence”)
- چیتشمك (çitişmek, “to interlace or become entangled”)
- چیتلتمك (çitletmek, “to make or let be enclosed with hurdles”)
- چیتلك (çitlik, “any boughs or twigs suitable for a fence”)
- چیتلمك (çitlemek, “to hedge, to inclose in a fence”)
- چیتلنمك (çitlenmek, “to be fenced or enclosed with hurdles”)
- چیتلو (çitli, “hurdled or hedged with bushes”)
- یرلو چیت (yerli çit, “permanent hedge”)
Descendants
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çıt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 401
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 619
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çit4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1011
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 179b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 482
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sepes”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1541
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1581
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 742
Urdu
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit चैत्र (caitra).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛːt̪/
- Rhymes: -ɛːt̪
Proper noun
چَیت • (cait) m (Hindi spelling चैत)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | چَیت (cait) | چَیت (cait) |
| oblique | چَیت (cait) | چَیتوں (caitõ) |
| vocative | چَیت (cait) | چَیتو (caito) |
See also
Hindu calendar monthsedit
Further reading
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “چیت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 569
- Platts, John T. (1884) “چیت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 470
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چیت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 267
- “چیت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- John Shakespear (1834) “چیت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 759
- “چیت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.