چیریک

Chagatai

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čerig.

Noun

چیریک • (čyryk /čerik, čerig/) (plural چیریک‌لار (/⁠čeriklär⁠/))

  1. (military) soldier, warrior
    Synonym: نفر (nfr /⁠näfär⁠/)
    چیریک تارتماق ― čyryk tārtmāq /čerik tartmaq/ ― to dispatch soldiers
  2. (military) army
    Synonyms: سو (sw /⁠sü⁠/), سپاه (spāh /⁠sipāh⁠/), لشکر (lškr /⁠läškär⁠/), جند (jnd /⁠jünd⁠/)
    چیریک‌نی باشلاتماق ― čyryk-ny bāšlātmāq /čerikni bašlatmaq/ ― to make someone the head of an army

Derived terms

  • چیریکلاماک (čyryklāmāk /⁠čeriklämäk⁠/, “to dispatch an army”)
  • چیریکچی (čyrykčy /⁠čerikči⁠/, “soldier”)

Descendants

  • Uyghur: چېرىك (chërik)
  • Uzbek: cherik
  • → Kazakh: шерік (şerık)
  • → Kyrgyz: черик (cerik)
  • → Persian: چریک

Further reading

  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881), “چیریک”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎[1] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 161
  • Ünlü, Suat (2013), Çağatay Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Dictionary of Chagatai Turkic] (in Turkish), Konya: Eğitim Yayınevi, →ISBN, page 253
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