چاتال

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

چتال (çatal)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čatal (“fork”), from *čat- (“to bring together”), the same root of چاتمق (çatmak, “to bring together”).

Noun

چاتال • (çatal)

prong, tine, a thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork
(by extension) fork, a utensil with spikes used to put food into the mouth
(nautical) breasthook, a horizontal timber fitted in the bows of a ship

Adjective

چاتال • (çatal)

forked, bifurcated, divided into two or more branches

Derived terms

ایرماق چاتالی (ırmak çatalı, “forks of a river”)
صیغین چاتالی (sığın çatalı, “antlers”)
چاتال آناختار (çatal anahtar, “kind of turnscrew”)
چاتال ایش (çatal iş, “dilemma”)
چاتال بیل (çatal bil, “digging fork”)
چاتال دستك (çatal destek, “troublesome pest”)
چاتال طرناق (çatal tırnak, “cloven hoof”)
چاتال قازق (çatal kazık, “matter that is involved in difficulties”)
چاتال چكیچ (çatal çekiç, “kind of hammer”)
چاتاللاندیرمق (çatallandırmak, “to bifurcate”)
چاتاللانمق (çatallanmak, “to become bifurcated”)

Descendants

Turkish: çatal
→ Albanian: çatall
→ Armenian: չաթալ (čʻatʻal)
→ Georgian: ჩათალი (čatali) — Chveneburi
→ Iraqi Arabic: چطل (çaṭal)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çatal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 897
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چاتال”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 174b
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاتال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 456
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Furca”, 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 633
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاتال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1540
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çatal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاتال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 700

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