Talk:Çelebi (title)

On the etymology of the word
Nişanyan states that çelebi originates from Assyrian tsalab ("cross", by extension, "ruler", "cleric", "God") and was passed to Turkic speakers via Maniheistic intermediates rather than an immediate Arabic origin.

Moreover, reflex of Arabic "djallabi" would be calab/celeb in Turkish, and the semantic matching is overstretching at best.

from Nişanyan : ...from Old Turkic çalab “a supreme man, affandi, god, lord”. This word is a loan from Assyrian ṣəlab or ṣəlīb “1, 85.106.108.96 (talk) 14:44, 3 June 2023 (UTC)