چفت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Persian جفت (joft).

Noun

چفت • (çift)

  1. pair (of boots, gloves, oars, etc.)
  2. mate, one of a pair
  3. couple, brace, two things (of any one kind)
  4. pair of oxen yoked to a plough

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Turkish: çift
  • → Albanian: çift
  • → Arabic: جِفْت (jift), شِفْت (šift)
  • → Armenian: չիֆթ (čʻiftʻ)
  • → Macedonian: чифт (čift)

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چفت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 471
  • Kʻiwpʻēlean, Ambrosios (1883) “ճիֆթ”, in Erekʻlezuean baṙagirkʻ tačkerēn-hayerēn-gaġġierēn [Ottoman–Armenian–French Trilingual Dictionary]‎, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 472a
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چفت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 723
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