چاشقان

Uyghur
Other scripts
Perso-Arabic چاشقان
Latin ‍chashqan‍
Cyrillic чашқан

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sïčgan (“mouse”). Often considered a nomen agentis from the verb *sïč- (“to defecate”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (syčγ՚n /sïčɣan/), Karakhanid سِجْغانْ‎ (sïčɣān), Armeno-Kipchak սըչխան (sïč̣χan), Tatar тычкан (tıçkan), Kazakh тышқан (tyşqan), Kyrgyz чычкан (çıçkan), Southern Altai чычкан (čïčkan), Shor шышқан (šïšqan), Uzbek sichqon, Bashkir сысҡан (sısqan), Turkmen syçan, Turkish sıçan (“mouse”), etc.

Noun

چاشقان • (chashqan) (plural چاشقانلار‎ (chashqanlar))

  1. mouse, rat
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