çene

From Ottoman Turkish چكه‎ (çeŋe, “chin, jawbone”), from Proto-Turkic *čeŋe (“jaw”). Cognate with Chagatai [script needed] (čeŋe), Yakut сэҥийэ (señiye, “chin”). Unclear relationship to Persian چانه‎ (čâne, “chin”), according to Dybo, the Persian form doesn't have an Iranian etymology and rather developed under Turkic influence. Compare Persian زنخ‎ (zanax, “chin”) with regular Iranian etymology, which is supposedly cognate to čâne.

• (standard) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈne/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈŋe/

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• Hyphenation: çe‧ne

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1. (anatomy) chin (bottom of a face)
2. jaw
3. (figuratively) talkativeness

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*čeŋe”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill