چوقور

Chagatai

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čok- (“to dig, delve”).[1] Cognate with Ottoman Turkish چوقور,[2] and Turkish çukur.

Adjective

چوقور (çuqur)

deep

Descendants

Uzbek:
- Cyrillic: чуқур (chuqur)
- Latin: chuqur
- Southern Uzbek: چوقور
Uyghur: چوڭقۇر (chongqur)
→ Persian:
- Dari: چقر (čuqur)
- Tajik: чуқур (čuqur)

References

Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čok-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوقور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 737

Persian

Adjective

چوقور

Misspelling of (“deep”).

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