چاپاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چپاق (çapak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čalpak (“dirt, filth”), a development of *čalp- (“to hit, strike; to make something piebald or multi-colored”); cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (çalpak, “dirt”) and Uyghur چاپاق (chapaq, “fump, (eye) gum”).

Noun

چاپاق • (çapak)

1. sleep, gound, inspissated mucus in the eyelids

Derived terms

• چاپاق بالغی (çapak balığı, “carp bream”)
• چاپاقلنمق (çapaklanmak, “to become gummy”)
• چاپاقلو (çapaklı, “that has sleep on the eyelids”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çapak
• → Armenian: չափախ (čʻapʻax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çapak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 883
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چپاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 178b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاپاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 455
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Grama et gramia”, 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 663
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چپاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1575
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çapak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاپاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 698