چاپار

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چاپمق (çapmak, “to run, trot, gallop”).

Noun

چاپار • (çapar)

  1. a Persian mounted courier or messenger
    Synonym: اولاق (ulak)

Adjective

چاپار • (çapar)

  1. that runs or gallops

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: çapar
  • → Armenian: Չափարյան (Čʻapʻaryan)

References

Persian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing: compare Old Anatolian Turkish چپار / چاپار / چپر (çapar), Ottoman Turkish چاپار (çapar), Azerbaijani çapar. Ultimately from the root underlying Ottoman Turkish چاپمق (çapmak), Azerbaijani çapmaq.

Also from Turkic (directly or via Persian): Middle Armenian չափառ (čʻapʻaṙ), Armenian Չափարյան (Čʻapʻaryan), Georgian ჩაფარი (čapari), Ossetian чапар (ḱapar), Avar чапар (čapar), Lezgi чапар (čapar), Lak чапар (čapar).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? čāpār
Dari reading? čāpār
Iranian reading? čâpâr
Tajik reading? čopor

Noun

Dari چاپار
Iranian Persian
Tajik чопор

چاپار • (čâpâr)

  1. post, mail
    Synonyms: برید (barid), پست (post)
  2. runner, mounted messenger, courier
    Synonyms: برید (barid), پیک (peyk), قاصد (qâsed), نامه‌بر (nâme-bar), نامه‌رسان (nâme-rasân), نامه‌آور (nâme-âvar), چاپارچی (čâpârči), خط‌کشان (xat-kašân)

Derived terms

References

  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎ (in German), volume 2, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1033, pages 12–13
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)‎ (in German), volume 4, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1033, page 452
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چاپار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
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