چابک

• چابوک (čâbuk), چاپک (čâpok), چاپوک (čâpuk)

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (cʾp̄wk' /⁠čābuk⁠/, “agile, nimble; excellent”), suffixed from an unattested root borrowed as Old Armenian ճեպ (čep, “haste”). Akin to Old Armenian ճապուկ (čapuk), Old Georgian ჭაპუკი (č̣aṗuḳi), ჭაბუკი (č̣abuḳi), Middle Iranian borrowings.

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چابک • (čâbok) (comparative چابک‌تَر, superlative چابک‌تَرین)

1. quick, fast, swift
2. sharp, acute
3. beautiful

چابک • (čâbok)

1. (rare, obsolete) horsewhip

• چابک زدن (čâbok zadan)

• → Azerbaijani: çevik
• → Ottoman Turkish: چابوق (çabuk), چاپوق (çapuk), چابك (çabük), چاپك (çapük), چاپوك (çapük), چویك (çevik)
  • Turkish: çabuk
• → Bengali: চাবুক (cabuk)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चाबुक (cābuk)

  Urdu: چابک (cābuk)

  • → English: chabuk, chabouk, chaubac, chaubuck, chawbuck
  • → Malayalam: ചവുക്കു (cavukku)
  • → Nepali: चाबुक् (cābuk)
  • → Portuguese: chabuco
  • → Tamil: சவுக்கு (cavukku), சவுக்கை (cavukkai)
  • → Telugu: చబుకు (cabuku)
• → Javanese: cambuk
• → Malay: cambuk
  • Indonesian: cambuk
  • → Dutch: sjambok
    • Afrikaans: sjambok
      • → English: sjambok, sambock, sambok, shambock, shambok, shambuck, sjambock, shambock, shambok, sjambock, sjamboke
        • → Xhosa: isabokwe
• → Marathi: चाबूक (cābūk)
• → Punjabi: ਚਾਬਕ (cābak)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “ճապուկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 188a
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “čābuk”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 143a

From Classical Persian چابک (čābuk).

چابک • (cābuk) m (Hindi spelling चाबूक)

1. horsewhip

چابک • (cābuk) (Hindi spelling चाबूक)

1. quick, fast