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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čayna- (“to chew”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani çeynɘmɘk, Kazakh шайнау (şainau), Kyrgyz чайноо (caynoo), Salar çenegüsi, Turkmen çeýnemek and Uzbek chaynamoq.
Verb
چیكنهمك • (çiğnemek) (third-person singular aorist چیكنهر (çiğner))
- (transitive) to chew, masticate, champ, to crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws
- Synonym: كومك (gevmek)
- (transitive) to trample, tread on, stomp, calcate, to crush something or someone by walking heavily on it
- Synonyms: آیاقلامق (ayaklamak), طبانلامق (tabanlamak)
Derived terms
- لقردی چیكنهمك (lakırdı çiğnemek, “to mince one's words”)
- چیكنتمك (çiğnetmek, “to make or let be chewed”)
- چیكنم (çiğnim, “chew, one bite”)
- چیكنمتك (çiğnimtek, “one quantity to chew”)
- چیكنمتی (çiğnimti, “a thing chewed”)
- چیكننمك (çiğnenmek, “to be chewed”)
- چیكنهمیك (çiğnemik, “masticated food”)
Descendants
References
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چیكنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 628
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çiğnemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 991
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چیكنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 488
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Conculcare”, 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 232
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چینمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1700
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çiğne-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیكنهمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 747