چیچك

Ottoman Turkish

چیچكلر

Alternative forms

چچك‎ (çiçek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čeček (“flower”); cognate with Azerbaijani çiçək, Bashkir сәсәк (säsäk), Chuvash ҫеҫке (śeśke), Kazakh шешек (şeşek), Kyrgyz чечек (çeçek), Tatar чәчәк (çäçäk), Uyghur چېچەك‎ (chëchek), Uzbek chechak and Yakut чэчик (cecik).

Noun

چیچك • (çiçek) (plural چیچكلر‎ (çiçekler))

(botany) flower, the colourful reproductive structure in angiosperms
Synonyms: زهر‎ (zehr), شكوفه‎ (şukufe), گل‎ (gül), ورد‎ (verd)
(pathology) smallpox, variola, a highly infectious disease caused by Variola virus
(chemistry) flower, a substance which is condensed from sublimation

Derived terms

قار چیچكی‎ (kar çiçeği, “false hellebore”)
چیچك آچمق‎ (çiçek açmak, “to bloom”)
چیچك باغچه‌جی‎ (çiçek bağçesi, “flower garden”)
چیچك بالی‎ (çiçek balı, “honey made from flowers”)
چیچك بوزوغو‎ (çiçek bozuğu, “pockmark”)
چیچك صویی‎ (çiçek suyu, “orange-flower water”)
چیچك ویرمك‎ (çiçek vermek, “to flower”)
چیچك چیقارمق‎ (çiçek çıkarmak, “to catch smallpox”)
چیچك یاغی‎ (çiçek yağı, “neroli”)
چیچكجی‎ (çiçekci, “florist”)
چیچكلك‎ (çiçeklik, “flowerpot”)
چیچكلندرمك‎ (çiçeklendirmek, “to make or let become a flower”)
چیچكلنمك‎ (çiçeklenmek, “to blossom”)
چیچكلو‎ (çiçekli, “in bloom”)
گون چیچكی‎ (gün çiçeği, “sunflower”)
یلدز چیچكی‎ (yıldız çiçeği, “dahlia”)

Descendants

Turkish: çiçek
→ Czech: šišák
→ German: Zischägge
- → English: zischägge
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: чи́чак

Latin script: číčak

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çiçek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 984
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چیچك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 483
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Flos”, 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 591
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چچك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1584
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çiçek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چیچك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 743

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