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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Usually explained as Persian چول (čūl, “bent”) + Persian پا (pā, “leg, foot”).
Adjective
چولپا • (çolpa)
- having one defective foot
- (of a horse) that trots, canters, or gallops, left foot foremost
- (figuratively, of a person) clumsy and uncouth
Descendants
References
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “çolpa”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2017) “çorpa¹”, in Ötüken Osmanlı Türkçesi Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, →ISBN, page 323a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چولپا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çolpa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چولپا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739
- Tietze, Andreas (2009) “çolpa/çulpa”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 528–529
- Tietze, Andreas (2009) “çorpa/çurpa”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 531a