# چمچه
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* چومچه (çumça, çümçe, çömçe), چمچق (çamçak), چمشق (çamşak)

### Etymology

Likely not inherited in this form in Oghuz, but borrowed from Persian چمچه (čamče), which itself is a borrowing from Turkic. Compare dialectal چمچ (çömüç), also from Proto-Turkic *kamïč.

### Noun

چمچه • (çamça, çemçe, çumça, çümçe, çömçe, çömçü)
* drinking-tray, bowl, nap
* scoop, ladle, spattle
    Synonym: صوساق (susak)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: çemçe, çömçe (“ladle”)
* North Mesopotamian Arabic: چُمْچَة (çumça, “ladle”)

### References

* ↑ Golden, Peter Benjamin (1993) “Georgio-Turcica: Some Marginal Notes on Pre-Ottoman/Safavid Oğuz and Non-Oğuz Turkic Elements in Georgian”, in Cătălin Hriban, editor, Studies on the Peoples and Cultures of the Eurasian Steppes, Bucharest: Brăila, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 252–253 = György Hazai, editor (1993–1994), Archivum Ottomanicum, volume XIII, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 106 of 101–116

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çemçe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 926
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cotyla”, 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 295
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چمچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1649
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چمچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 730
* Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چمچه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 365

## Persian
### Etymology

Turkic borrowing. Found in Kazakh шөміш (şömış), Kyrgyz чөмүч (cömüc), Bashkir сүмес (sümes), Uzbek choʻmich, Chagatai [script needed] (čömüš), and compare probably separate but similarly formed Uyghur [script needed] (qemič), Karakhanid [script needed] (qamɨč), Tuvan хымыш (xımış), Yakut хомуос (qomuos), Dolgan комуос, Bulgar [script needed] (xumǯa) from Proto-Turkic *kamïč, all meaning “scoop, ladle”. In Persian the stem of the former word appears suffixed +‎ ـچه (-če, diminutive).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [t͡ʃam.ˈt͡ʃa], [t͡ʃum.ˈt͡ʃa]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰäm.t͡ʃʰǽ], [t͡ʃʰʊm.t͡ʃʰǽ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰäm.t͡ʃʰǽ], [t͡ʃʰʊm.t͡ʃʰǽ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t͡ʃʰäm.t͡ʃʰǽ], [t͡ʃʰʊm.t͡ʃʰǽ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t͡ʃʰäm.t͡ʃʰǽ], [t͡ʃʰum.t͡ʃʰǽ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰæm.t͡ʃʰé], [t͡ʃʰom.t͡ʃʰé]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰäm.t͡ʃʰǽ], [t͡ʃʰum.t͡ʃʰǽ]

### Noun

| Dari | چمچه |
| Iranian Persian | چمچه |
| Tajik | чумча |
چمچه • (čamče, čomče)
* (archaic) spoon
    Synonym: قاشق (qâšoq)
* scoop

#### Descendants

* → Iraqi Arabic: چَمْچَة (čámča, “ladle”)
* → Armenian: չոմչա (čʻomčʻa), չամչիկ (čʻamčʻik)
* → Assamese: চামুচ (samus)
* → Baluchi: چمچہ (camca)
* → Bengali: চামচ (camoc)
* → Chagatai: چمچه (çemçe), چومچار (çumçar)
* → Doteli: चम्मच (cammac)
* → Georgian: ჩამჩა (čamča) (or via Turkic, since the 14th century)
* → Gujarati: ચમચો (camco), ચમચી (camcī)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: चमचा (camcā), चम्मच (cammac)
    Urdu: چمچہ (camcā), چمّچ (cammac)
*** → Malay:
    Latin script: camca
***** Indonesian: camca
    Arabic script: چمچا
* → Kannada: ಚಮಚ (camaca)
* → Marathi: चमचा (camcā)
* → Marwari: सम्स्यो (samsyo)
* → Odia: ଚାମଚ (cāmaca)
* → Ottoman Turkish: چمچه (çamça, çemçe)
* → Punjabi:
** Gurmukhi script: ਚਮਚਾ (camcā)
** Shahmukhi script: چمچہ (camcā)
* → Sanskrit: चमस (camasa)
* → Sylheti: ꠌꠣꠝꠌ (samoso)
* → Tamil: சம்சா (camcā)
* → Telugu: చెమ్చా (cemcā)
* → Turkmen: çemçe
* →⇒ Old Armenian: չամչաշերեփ (čʻamčʻašerepʻ)

### References

* ↑ More Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 117b
* ↑ More Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (1997) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, pages 249–250
* ↑ Starling: Proto-Turkic: *kamɨč
* 1 2 Wexler, Paul (2006) Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of “Jewish” Languages, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 374
* ↑ Golden, Peter Benjamin (1993) “Georgio-Turcica: Some Marginal Notes on Pre-Ottoman/Safavid Oğuz and Non-Oğuz Turkic Elements in Georgian”, in Cătălin Hriban, editor, Studies on the Peoples and Cultures of the Eurasian Steppes, Bucharest: Brăila, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 252–253 = György Hazai, editor (1993–1994), Archivum Ottomanicum, volume XIII, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 106 of 101–116