چیل
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- چل (çil)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čïl (“spot, freckle, fleck”).
Adjective
چیل • (çil)
- bright, shiny, brilliant, emitting much light
- Synonym: پارلاق (parlak)
- freckled, speckled, marked with spots or dots
Derived terms
- چیل آقچه (çil akça, “new and shining money”)
- چیل طاوق (çil tavuk, “speckled hen”)
- چیل قوشی (çil kuşu, “grey partridge”)
- چیل ككلیك (çil keklik, “quail”)
- چیللك (çillik, “quality of being speckled or freckled”)
Descendants
- Turkish: çil
- → Armenian: չիլ (čʻil)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çil1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 993
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چیل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 193b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 488
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Perdix”, 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 1271
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1699
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 747
Saraiki
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃeːl/
Noun
چیل (cel) f
Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀘𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀸 (cillā), from Sanskrit चिल्ला (cillā).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiːl/
- Rhymes: -iːl
Noun
چیل • (cīl) f (Hindi spelling चील)