چفتلك

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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]
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Descendants

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References

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  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

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