çekiç

• çâkiç

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چكیچ (çekiç).

çekiç m (plural çekiçë, definite çekiçi, definite plural çekiçët)

1. mallet, spalling mallet
2. (technical) machine hammer
3. (anatomy) malleus, hammer bone
4. (sports) object thrown in a hammer throw

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• çekan

• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çekiç”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 105

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish چكیچ (çekiç), from Proto-Turkic *čekük, *čeküč (“hammer”); cognate with Azerbaijani çəkic, Bashkir сүкеш (sükeş), Crimean Tatar çöküç, Karachay-Balkar чёгюч (çögüç), Khakas сӧӧс, Kumyk чёгюч (çögüç), Kyrgyz чөкэч (cökec), Nogai шоькиш (şökiş), Tatar чүкеч (çükeç), Turkmen çekiç, and Uzbek cho'kich.

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çekiç (definite accusative çekici, plural çekiçler)

1. hammer
2. (anatomy) malleus