چفت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian جفت‎ (joft).

Noun

چفت • (çift)

  1. pair (of boots, gloves, oars, etc.)
  2. mate, one of a pair
  3. couple, brace, two things (of any one kind)
  4. pair of oxen yoked to a plough

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Turkish: çift
  • → Albanian: çift
  • → Armenian: չիֆթ (čʿiftʿ)
  • → Macedonian: чифт (čift)

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چفت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 471
  • Kʿiwpʿēlean, Ambrosios (1883), “ճիֆթ”, in Erekʿlezuean baṙagirkʿ tačkerēn-hayerēn-gałłierēn [Ottoman–Armenian–French Trilingual Dictionary], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 472a
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چفت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 723
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