چاق

See also: جاف, خاف, and حاق

Khalaj

Adjective

چاق (çâq)

  1. Arabic spelling of çâq (“thick”)

Ottoman Turkish

Adverb

چاق • (çak)

  1. exactly
  2. precisely

Descendants

  • Turkish: çak
  • → Bulgarian: чак (čak)

Persian

Etymology

Doublet of چاغ (čâġ) and from the same Turkic source as the former.[1] The semantic development must have been along the lines of 'measure of something' → 'in high measure' → 'strong'[2] → 'thick, healthy, sound' etc. Compare Uzbek chogʻ (“happy, gay, joyful”), Azerbaijani çağ (“healthy; well-fed; happy”) for a similar development. Cognate with Talysh çok (“good”). Persian چاغ (čâġ) was borrowed from a parallel track of semantic development, 'measure of something' → 'measure of time' → 'time'.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? čāq
Dari reading? čāq
Iranian reading? čâġ
Tajik reading? čoq

Adjective

Dari چاق
Iranian Persian
Tajik чоқ

چاق • (čâq) (comparative چاق‌تَر, superlative چاق‌تَرین)

  1. fat, overweight
    Synonyms: فربه (farbe), شکم‌گنده (šekam-gonde)
    Antonym: لاغر (lâġar)
    سه کیلو چاق شده‌ام. ― se kilo čâq šode-am. ― I gained three kilograms.
  2. (colloquial) thick
  3. (colloquial) healthy, sound
    دماغت چاقه؟ ― damâġ-et čâq-e? ― you doin' well?!

Derived terms

  • چاق شدن (čâq šodan)
  • چاق کردن (čâq kardan)

Descendants

  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: चाक़ (cāq)
    Urdu: چاق (cāq)
  • → Khalaj: çâq

References

  1. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1967), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1047, page 29
  2. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1967), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎[2] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1045, page 26

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree
Classical Persian چَاق (čāq)bor.
Urdu چاق

    Borrowed from Classical Persian چَاق (čāq).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    چاق • (cāq) (Hindi spelling चाक़)

    1. obese, fat, overweight
    2. alert, active, lively
    3. dexterous

    References

    • “چاق”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    • “چاق”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
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