# چراغ
## Khalaj
### Noun

چِراغ (çirâğ) (definite accusative چِراغؽ, plural چِراغلار)
* Arabic spelling of çirâğ (“lamp”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* չիրաղ (çirağ), չէրաղ (çerağ) — Armeno-Turkish

### Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian Persian چراغ (čerâğ, čarâğ), itself from Parthian 𐫝𐫡𐫀𐫃 (crʾg /⁠čirāγ⁠/, “lamp”). Doublet of سراج (sirac, “lamp”).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: چ‧راغ

### Noun

چراغ • (çerağ or çirağ) (definite accusative چراغی (çerağı), plural چراغلر (çerağlar))
* lamp, oil lamp, a simple vessel used to produce light continuously from a liquid fuel source
    Synonyms: سراج (sirac), قندیل (kandil), لامپه (lampa), مصباح (mısbah)
* wick, candlewick, a bundle, twist, or braid of cord, fabric, or fibre that draws up liquid fuel
    Synonyms: سراج (sirac), فتیل (fitil)
* light, any source of illumination, such as a candle, lightbulb, torch, lamp, streetlight, etc.
    Synonyms: آیدین (aydın), ایشق (ışık), سراج (sirac), نور (nur)

#### Derived terms

* چراغ پرهیز (çerağ perhiz, “lanter”)
* چراغان (çerağan, “illuminations”)
* چراغك (çerağek, “little lamp”)
* چراغپا (çerağpa, “lampstand”)

#### Related terms

* سراج (sirac, “oil lamp, lamp”)
* چرا (çıra, “pitch-pine wood”)
* چراق (çırak, “pensioner, apprentice”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: çerağ, çirağ

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çerağ”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 935
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “çerâg”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 188
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چراغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 468
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lucerna”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 975
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چراغ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1595
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چراغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 715

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چراغ.

### Noun

چراغ • (čirā́ǧ) m (plural چراغان (čiraǧā́n))
* candle; lamp
* illumination

### References

* Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “چراغ”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press, page 554

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Parthian 𐫝𐫡𐫀𐫃 (crʾg /⁠čirāγ⁠/, “lamp”). Compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (clʾγ), 𐫝𐫡𐫀𐫍 (crʾh /⁠čirāγ⁠/, “lamp”), Sogdian [script needed] (crʾʾγ /⁠čarāγ⁠/), Ossetian цырагъ (cyraǧ). Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian ճրագ (črag), Classical Syriac ܫܪܓܐ (šərāḡāʾ), Arabic سِرَاج (sirāj).
* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to Proto-Indo-Iranian *čitrás (“bright, shining”)?”

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [t͡ʃi.ɾɑːɣ], [t͡ʃa.ɾɑːɣ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɪ.ɾɑːɣ], [t͡ʃʰä.ɾɑːɣ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɪ.ɾɑːɣ], [t͡ʃʰä.ɾɑːɣ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɪ.ɾɑːɣ], [t͡ʃʰä.ɾɑːɣ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t͡ʃʰi.ɾɔːɣ], [t͡ʃʰä.ɾɔːɣ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰe.ɹɒːɢ̥], [t͡ʃʰæ.ɹɒːɢ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰä.ɾɔʁ]
| Dari | چراغ |
| Iranian Persian | چراغ |
| Tajik | чароғ |

### Noun

چراغ • (čerâğ) (plural چراغ‌ها (čerâğ-hâ))
* lamp
    Synonym: لامپ (lâmp)
* light
* stove

#### Derived terms

* چراغانی (čerâğâni)
* چراغی (čerâği)
* چراغچی (čerâğči)
* چلچراغ (čel-čerâğ, “chandelier”)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: çıraq / чыраг / چیراق
* → Bengali: চেরাগ (cerag)
* → Georgian: ჩირაღი (čiraɣi)
* → Gujarati: ચિરાગ (cirāg)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: चिराग़ (cirāġ)
    Urdu: چراغ (cirāġ)
* → Kazakh: шырақ (şyraq)
* → Khalaj: çirâğ
* → Ossetian: цырагъ (cyraǧ)
* → Ottoman Turkish: چراغ (çerâg, çirâg), چراق (çırak)
** Turkish: çırak
** → Albanian: çirak
** →⇒ Egyptian Arabic: إشراقة (išrāqa), أشراقة (ašrāqa)
** → Armenian: չրախ (čʻrax), չրաղ (čʻraġ)
** → Aromanian: cirac, cireac
** → Bulgarian: чира́к (čirák)
** → Crimean Tatar: şıraq
** → Greek: τσιράκι (tsiráki)
** → Macedonian: чирак (čirak)
** → Romanian: cirac
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чѝрак
    Latin script: čìrak
* → Uzbek: chiroq
* → Uyghur: چىراق (chiraq)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چراغ (čirâğ, čarâğ).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /t͡ʃə.ɾɑːɣ/, /t͡ʃɪ.ɾɑːɣ/
* Rhymes: -ɑːɣ
* Hyphenation: چ‧راغ

### Noun

چِراغ or چَراغ • (cirāġ or carāġ) m (Hindi spelling चिराग़ or चराग़)
* lamp
* light

#### Synonyms

* دیا (diyā)
* دیپ (dīp)
* دیپک (dīpak)
* دیپکا (dīpikā)