چاقماق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

چقماق‎ (çakmak)

Etymology

Cognate with Azerbaijani çaxmaq.

Noun

چاقماق • (çakmak)

any instrument used for striking fire; especially, a steel for striking on a flint, a firestriker
lock of a gun
certain kind of pimple or pustule on the face

Descendants

Turkish: çakmak
→ Albanian: çakmak
→ Bulgarian: чакма́к (čakmák)
→ Georgian: ჩახმახი (čaxmaxi)
→ Greek: τσακμάκι (tsakmáki)
→ Macedonian: чакмак (čakmak)
→ Middle Armenian: չախմախ (čʿaxmax)
- Armenian: չախմախ (čʿaxmax)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ча̀кмак

Latin: čàkmak

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چاقماق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 706

Uyghur

Noun

چاقماق • (chaqmaq) (plural چاقماقلار‎ (chaqmaqlar))

lightning
burning fire

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