Çınar Explained
Çınar, also spelled chinar and çinar, is a Turkic word meaning Platanus tree (commonly called "plane tree" or "sycamore tree" depending on the English dialect, derived from the Persian word chenar (Persian: چنار), and may refer to:
Places
Albania
- Çinar, Albania, a village within the rural town of Fier-Shegan in the county of Fier
Azerbaijan
Turkey
People
Other uses
- Çınar Incident, the name of a 17th-century rebellion in the Ottoman Empire
- Çınar Ağacı, a 2011 Turkish comedy-drama film
- Chinar, Russia, a rural locality in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia
- Chinar, alternative spelling of Chinor, a town in Tajikistan
- Chinar, a common name for Platanus orientalis, the oriental plane tree
- Chinar Corps, corps of the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir
- Chinar Kharkar, Indian music composer, part of the Chinar–Mahesh duo
- Chinar Park, a locality in Rajarhat, Kolkata, India
- Char Chinar, an island on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, India
- , a 2015 Indian film set in Srinagar
See also