چفت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian جفت (joft), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ywht /⁠ǰuxt⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *yuxtáh.

Noun

چفت • (çift)

  1. pair, couple, a set of two similar things taken together
    Synonym: زوج (zevc)
  2. mate, match, one of a pair, a single thing of a couple
    Synonyms: اش (eş), زوج (zevc)
  3. couple, two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship
    Synonym: زوج (zevc)
  4. yoke, team, a pair of draught animals yoked to a plough
    Synonym: قوش (koş)

Derived terms
  • چفت اولمق (çift olmak, “to become a pair”)
  • چفت ایشی (çift işi, “filigree”)
  • چفت سورمك (çift sürmek, “to drive the plough”)
  • چفت چبوق (çift çubuk, “the plough and the stick”)
  • چفتجی (çiftci, “farmer, agriculturist”)
  • چفتلشمك (çiftleşmek, “to couple sexually”)
  • چفتلك (çiftlik, “farm, agricultural estate”)
  • چفتلنمك (çiftlenmek, “to become a pair”)
  • چفته (çifte, “paired, double”)

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

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çift”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 986
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چفت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 184a
  • 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
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Par”, 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 1239
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چفت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1624
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çift”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چفت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 723
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