چغتای

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠶ (čaɣatay).

Proper noun

چغتای • (čağatay)

  1. a male given name of historical usage, most famously borne by the Mongol ruler Chagatai Khan (1183–1242), second son of Genghis Khan and first khan of the Chagatai Khanate, a medieval Mongol and later Turkicized khanate of Central Asia (divided after the 14th century).
  2. Chagatai Tajiks, an ethnic group in Uzbekistan

Adjective

چغتای • (čağatay)

  1. honest, sincere

Descendants

  • Uyghur: چاغاتاي (chaghatay)
    • → Russian: Чагата́й (Čagatáj)
  • Uzbek: Chigʻatoy

Further reading

  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881), “چغتای”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎[1] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 140
  • Vámbery, Ármin (1867), “چغتای”, in Ćagataische sprachstudien‎[2] (in German), Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, page 278

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Proper noun

چغتای • (Çağatay)

  1. Chaghatay (Mongol ruler)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

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