چابک

• چابوک (čâbuk), چاپک (čâpok), چاپوک (čâpuk)

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (cʾp̄wk' /⁠čābuk⁠/, “agile, nimble; excellent”), Northern Luri چںڤوک (çəvok), suffixed from an unattested root borrowed as Old Armenian ճեպ (čep, “haste”). Akin to Old Armenian ճապուկ (čapuk), Old Georgian ჭაპუკი (č̣aṗuḳi), ჭაბუკი (č̣abuḳi), Middle Iranian borrowings.

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چابک • (čâbok) (comparative چابک‌تَر, superlative چابک‌تَرین)

1. quick, fast, swift
2. sharp, acute
3. beautiful

چابک • (čâbok)

1. (rare, obsolete) horsewhip

• چابک زدن (čâbok zadan)

• → Azerbaijani: çevik
• → Ottoman Turkish: چابوق (çabuk), چاپوق (çapuk), چابك (çabük), چاپك (çapük), چاپوك (çapük), چویك (çevik)
  • Turkish: çabuk
• → Bengali: চাবুক (cabuk)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चाबुक (cābuk)

  Urdu: چابک (cābuk)

  • → English: chabuk, chabouk, chaubac, chaubuck, chawbuck
  • → Malayalam: ചവുക്കു (cavukku)
  • → Nepali: चाबुक् (cābuk)
  • → Portuguese: chabuco
  • → Tamil: சவுக்கு (cavukku), சவுக்கை (cavukkai)
  • → Telugu: చబుకు (cabuku)
• → Javanese: cambuk
• → Malay: cambuk
  • Indonesian: cambuk
  • → Dutch: sjambok
    • Afrikaans: sjambok
      • → English: sjambok, sambock, sambok, shambock, shambok, shambuck, sjambock, shambock, shambok, sjambock, sjamboke
        • → Xhosa: isabokwe
• → Marathi: चाबूक (cābūk)
• → Punjabi: ਚਾਬਕ (cābak)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977), “ճապուկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 188a
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “čābuk”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

• Bailey, H. W. (1979), Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 143a

From Classical Persian چابک (čābuk).

چابک • (cābuk) m (Hindi spelling चाबूक)

1. horsewhip

چابک • (cābuk) (Hindi spelling चाबूक)

1. quick, fast