چفتلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چفت (çift, “pair, team”) +‎ ـلك (-lik).

Noun

چفتلك • (çiftlik)

  1. the quality of being a pair or team
  2. an amount of land a single plow of oxen can plow in one day, journey
  3. farm, agricultural estate
    چفتلك
  4. a kind of agricultural estate treated more landlord-like than a تیمار (timar) and cultivated by de facto serfs [from the 16th century, peak in the 18th]
  • خاصه چفتلك (hassa çiftlik))
  • بكلك چفتلك (beylik çiftlik)
  • چفتجی (çiftçi, “farmer”)
  • چفتجیلك (çiftçilik, “farming”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: çiftlik
  • → Albanian: çiflig
  • → Arabic: جِفْتْلِك (jiftlik), جِفْلِك (jiflik), شِفْتْلِك (šiftlik), شِفْلِك (šiflik)
  • → Armenian: չիֆլիկ (čʻiflik), չիֆթլիկ (čʻiftʻlik)
  • → Bulgarian: чифли́к (čiflík)
  • → Greek: τσιφλίκι (tsiflíki)
  • → Hungarian: csiflik
  • → Macedonian: чифлиг (čiflig), чифлик (čiflik)
  • → Romanian: ciftlâc
  • → Russian: чифтлик (čiftlik)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чѝтлук, чѝфлук, чѝвлук, чѝфтлук
    Latin script: čìtluk, čìfluk, čìvluk, čìftluk
    • → Hungarian: csivlik[1]

References
  1. Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 540

Further reading
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چفتلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 358
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