چقرق

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Ottoman Turkish

چقرق

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čığrık or *čıkrık (“something which revolves”), a word which, according to Nishanyan, ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čakrám (“wheel”).

Noun

چقرق • (çıkrık) (definite accusative چقرغی (çıkrığı), plural چقرقلر (çıkrıklar))

  1. spinning wheel, a domestic device for spinning yarn or thread from fibres using one spindle
    Synonym: چرخ (çarh)
  2. capstan, windlass, winch, any mechanical device used to pull in or let out a rope or cable
    Synonyms: ارغات (ırgat), بوجرغات (bocurgat)
  3. turner’s lathe, a machine tool used to shape a workpiece by rotating it against a cutting tool
    Synonym: طورنو (torno)
  4. jenny, spinning jenny, a device or frame for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles

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References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çığrık/çıkrık”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 410

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