چفت

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian جفت (joft), from Middle Persian (ywht /⁠ǰuxt⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *yuxtáh.

Noun

چفت (çift) (definite accusative چفتی (çifti), plural چفتلر (çiftler))

  1. pair, couple, a set of two similar things taken together
    Synonym: زوج (zevc)
  2. mate, match, one of a pair, a single thing of a couple
    Synonyms: اش (), زوج (zevc)
  3. couple, two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship
    Synonym: زوج (zevc)
  4. yoke, team, a pair of draught animals yoked to a plough
    Synonym: قوش (koş)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: çift
  • Albanian: çift
  • Arabic: جِفْت (jift), شِفْت (šift)
  • Armenian: չիֆթ (čʻiftʻ)
  • Macedonian: чифт (čift)

Further reading

  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چفت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 587
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çift”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 986
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چفت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 184a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چفت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 471
  • Kʻiwpʻēlean, Ambrosios (1883) “ճիֆթ”, in Erekʻlezuean baṙagirkʻ tačkerēn-hayerēn-gaġġierēn [Ottoman–Armenian–French Trilingual Dictionary]‎, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 472a
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Par”, 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, Vienna, column 1239
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چفت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1624
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çift”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چفت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 723