چاپاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • چپاق (çapak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čalpak (dirt, filth), a development of *čalp- (to hit, strike; to make something piebald or multi-colored); cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (çalpak, dirt) and Uyghur چاپاق (chapaq, fump, (eye) gum).

Noun

چاپاق • (çapak)

  1. sleep, gound, inspissated mucus in the eyelids

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: çapak
  • Armenian: չափախ (čʻapʻax)

Further reading

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