چفت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• չիֆթ (çift) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

چفت • (çift) (definite accusative چفتی (çifti), plural چفتلر (çiftler))

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

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چفت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 587
• 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^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 184a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چفت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 471
• Kʻiwpʻēlean, Ambrosios (1883) “ճիֆթ”, in Erekʻlezuean baṙagirkʻ tačkerēn-hayerēn-gaġġierēn [Ottoman–Armenian–French Trilingual Dictionary]‎^[3], 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^[4], 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^[5], Vienna, column 1624
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çift”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چفت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 723