چیغیر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • چغیر (çığır), چكیر (çığır), چیكیر (çığır)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čïgïr (“foot path, narrow track”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani cığır and Tatar çığır.

Noun

چیغیر • (çığır) (definite accusative چیغیری (çığırı), plural چیغیرلر (çığırlar))

  1. path, trail, track, footpath, a narrow, unpaved route for travel over land, especially one through the snow
    Near-synonyms: پاتقه (patika), یول (yol)
  2. rut, a furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road
    Synonym: تكرلك ایزی (tekerlek izi)
  3. (figuratively) method, system, a process by which a task is completed, a way of doing something
    Synonyms: اصول (usul), طرز (tarz)

Derived terms

  • چیغیر آچمق (çığır açmak, “to pioneer, to blaze a trail”)
  • چیغیردن چیقمق (çığırdan çıkmak, “to be thrown out from the proper track”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: çığır

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çığır”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 409

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