çanak

Meaning

1. bowl, earthenware pot, a container used to hold, mix or present food
2. potful, the amount of food a pot or bowl can hold
3. calyx, the outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals
4. basin, bowl, a depression whose depth is less than its width

Hyphenated as

ça‧nak

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چناق (çanak, “bowl, earthenware pot”), itself from Proto-Turkic *čïnïańak (“cup, bowl”). Cognate with Azerbaijani çanaq, Bashkir сынаяҡ (sınayaq), Kazakh шыныаяқ (şynyaäq) and Uzbek chanoq.