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Ottoman Turkish
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))
- pair, couple, a set of two similar things taken together
- Synonym: زوج (zevc)
- mate, match, one of a pair, a single thing of a couple
- Synonyms: اش (eş), زوج (zevc)
- couple, two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship
- Synonym: زوج (zevc)
- yoke, team, a pair of draught animals yoked to a plough
- Synonym: قوش (koş)
Derived terms
- چفت اولمق (çift olmak, “to become a pair”)
- چفت ایشی (çift işi, “filigree”)
- چفت سورمك (çift sürmek, “to drive the plough”)
- چفت چبوق (çift çubuk, “the plough and the stick”)
- چفتجی (çiftci, “farmer, agriculturist”)
- چفتلشمك (çiftleşmek, “to couple sexually”)
- چفتلك (çiftlik, “farm, agricultural estate”)
- چفتلنمك (çiftlenmek, “to become a pair”)
- چفته (çifte, “paired, double”)
Descendants
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