# چوقه
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Possibly from Persian چوقه (čôqa), چوخه (čôxa), if it is not itself borrowed from a Turkic source. In any case, related to the Persian.

### Pronunciation

* (16th–19th century, U) IPA: /t͡ʃoka/
* (16th–19th century, non-U) IPA: /t͡ʃoxa/
* (late 18th–20th century, U) IPA: /t͡ʃuka/
* (late 18th–20th century, non-U) IPA: /t͡ʃuxa/

### Noun

چوقه • (çoka or çuka) (definite accusative چوقه‌یی (çokayı), plural چوقه‌لر (çokalar))
* baize, a thick, soft, coarse, usually woolen cloth resembling felt, but more durable
* broadcloth, a smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width
* drape, drapery, cloth draped gracefully in folds, generally made of woolen materials

#### Derived terms

* قرمزی چوقه (kırmızı çoka, kırmızı çuka, “wallflower”)
* چوقه آطه‌سی (çoka adası, çuka adası, “the island Kythira”)
* چوقه بالغی (çoka balığı, çuka balığı, “sterlet”)
* چوقه لباس (çoka libas, çuka libas, “drape”)
* چوقه چیچكی (çoka çiçeği, çuka çiçeği, “primrose”)
* چوقه‌جی (çokacı, çukacı, “draper”)
* چوقه‌دار (çokadar, çukadar, “valet, lackey”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: çuha
* → Albanian: cohë
* → Arabic: جُوخ (jūḵ)
* → Aromanian: ciohã (“poor”)
* → Bulgarian: чоха́ (čohá)
* → Byzantine Greek: τζόχα (tzókha)
    → Greek: τζόχα (tzócha)
* → Macedonian: чоха (čoha)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чо̀ха
    Latin script: čòha
* → Slovene: čoha
** → Hungarian: csuha, csoha (“habit”)
*** → Slovak: čuha
**** → Polish: czuha, czucha, czuhaj, czuja
***** → Belarusian: чуга́й (čuháj)
***** → Ukrainian: чу́га (čúha), чуга́й (čuháj)
****** → Russian: чу́га (čúga), чуга́й (čugáj)
* →? Persian: چوقا (čôqâ), چوخا (čôxa)
** → Hindi: चोग़ा (coġā)
** → Middle Armenian: չուխայ (čʻuxay)
*** Armenian: չուխա (čʻuxa)
** → Georgian: ჩოხა (čoxa), ჩოჴა (čoqa) — Khevsureti, Kakheti, Chveneburi, ჩოჴაჲ (čoqay) — Tusheti, Ingilo, ჩოყაჲ (čoq̇ay) — Ingilo
*** → Abkhaz: а-чоуҳа́ (a-čowḥá)
*** → Bats: ჩოჴაჸო̆ (čoqaʾŏ)
*** → English: chokha
*** → Ingush: чокхи (čoqi)
*** → Laz: ჩოხა (çoxa), მჩოხა (mçoxa)
*** → Mingrelian: ჩოხა (čoxa)
** → Ossetian: цухъхъа (cuqqa), цохъа (coqa)
** → Chechen: чоа (čoa)
** → Russian: чоха́ (čoxá)

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چوقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 611
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çuha1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1055
* Doerfer, Gerhard (1963–1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 112–113
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چوقه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 191b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 480
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pannus”, 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 1238
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1681
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çuha”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “502. ČOAHǍ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 111
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 738