čirak

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چراغ (çirâg, çerâg), from Persian چراغ (čerâġ, “lamp, light, wick”).

• čìrjāk

• IPA^(key): /tʃǐraːk/
• Hyphenation: či‧rak

čìrāk m inan or m anim (Cyrillic spelling чѝра̄к)

1. (regional, inanimate) candlestick

   Synonyms: svȇćnjāk, svijȇćnjāk

2. (regional, animate) official, clerk

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چراق (çırak), from Persian چراغ (čerâġ). Akin to čiràkluk.

• IPA^(key): /tʃǐraːk/
• Hyphenation: či‧rak

čìrāk m anim (Cyrillic spelling чѝра̄к)

1. (regional) apprentice, student, pupil

   Synonyms: kȃlfa, šègrt

2. (regional) servant

• “čirak”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• Škaljić, Abdulah (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 177
• “čirak”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика [Rečnik srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika, Dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian Literary Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање [Second Phototype Edition], volume 6, Novi Sad; Zagreb: Matica srpska; Matica hrvatska, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 882
• Miroslav Nikolić, editor (2007), “čirak”, in Речник српскога језика [Rečnik srpskoga jezika, Dictionary of the Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Прво издање [First Edition], Novi Sad: Matica srpska, page 1517