چالمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čal- (“to knock down, hit, agitate”);^[1] cognate with Azerbaijani çalmaq, Kazakh шалу (şalu), Kyrgyz чалуу (caluu), Turkmen çalmak and Uzbek chalmoq.

Verb

چالمق • (çalmak)

1. (transitive) to strike, beat, hit, pound, bash, impel with a blow

   Synonyms: اورمق (urmak), دوگمك (döğmek)

2. (transitive) to play a tune or a musical instrument, perform music upon
3. (transitive) to knock, strike for admittance, rap upon, as a door
4. (transitive) to steal, rob, purloin, take illegally something owned by someone else
5. (intransitive) to sound in successive beats, as a clock in striking the hour
6. (of colors and flavors, intransitive) to verge upon or smack of

Derived terms

• آتش چالمق (ateş çalmak, “to scorch”)
• طبان چالمق (taban çalmak, “to run as fast as possible”)
• قپو چالمق (kapu çalmak, “to knock at a door”)
• چالاغان (çalağan, “that bites, snaps or stings”)
• چالدرمق (çaldırmak, “to make or let be struck”)
• چالشمق (çalışmak, “to work assiduously”)
• چالغو (çalgu, çalgı, “musical instrument”)
• چالق (çalık, “struck, injured”)
• چالقامق (çalkamak, “to agitate, shake”)
• چالم (çalım, “strike, hit”)
• چالمه (çalma, “strike, hit”)
• چالپانمق (çalpanmak, “to oscillate violently”)
• چالین (çalın, “steel for striking fire”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çalmak
• →? Russian: ча́лить (čálitʹ)

References

1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čal-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çalmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 873
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چالمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 464
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Percutere”, 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 1269
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چالمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1558
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çal-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چالمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 709