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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From چفتجی (çiftci, “farmer, husbandman”) + ـلك (-lik, lük, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).
Noun
چفتجیلك • (çiftcilik)
- agriculture, husbandry, agronomy, the occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer
- Synonyms: دهقانی (dihkânî), فلاحت (felahat)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çiftçilik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 987
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چفتجیلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 184a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چفتجیلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 471
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چفتجیلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1625
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چفتجیلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 723