چاق

See also: جاف‎, خاف‎, and حاق‎

Khalaj

Adjective

چاق (çâq)

  1. Arabic spelling of çâq (“thick”)

Ottoman Turkish

Adverb

چاق • (çak)

  1. exactly
  2. precisely

Descendants
  • Turkish: çak

Persian

Etymology

Doublet of چاغ‎ and from the same Turkic source as the former[1]. The semantic development must have been along the lines of 'measure of something' → 'in high measure' → 'strong'[2] → 'thick, healthy, sound' etc. Compare Uzbek chogʻ (“happy, gay, joyful”), Azerbaijani çağ (“healthy; well-fed; happy”) for a similar development. Cognate with Talysh çok (“good”). Persian چاغ‎ was borrowed from a parallel track of semantic development, 'measure of something' → 'measure of time' → 'time'.

Pronunciation
  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɔq/

Adjective
Dari چاق
Iranian Persian
Tajik чоқ (čoq)

چاق • (čâq) (comparative چاق‌تَر‎ (čâq-tar), superlative چاق‌تَرین‎ (čâq-tarin))

  1. fat, overweight
    Synonym: فربه‎ (farbe)
    Antonym: لاغر‎ (lâğar)
    ‏سه کیلو چاق شده‌ام.‎‎ ― se kilo čâq šode-am. ― I gained three kilograms.
  2. (colloquial) thick
  3. (colloquial) healthy, sound
    ‏دماغت چاقه؟‎‎ ― damâğ-et čâq-e? ― you doin' well?!

Derived terms
  • چاق شدن‎ (čâq šodan)
  • چاق کردن‎ (čâq kardan)

Descendants
  • → Armenian: չաղ (čʿał)
  • → Hindustani:
    Urdu: چاق‎

References
  1. Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎ (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1047, page 29
  2. Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎ (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1045, page 26

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چاق‎ (čâq), from Turkic.

Pronunciation

Adjective

چاق • (cāq) (Hindi spelling चाक़)

  1. obese, fat, overweight
  2. alert, active, lively
  3. dexterous

References
  • “چاق”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “چاق”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
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