Etymology

chamcha

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Today it means: A sycophant and hanger-on or lackey. Full definition →

Hindi चमचा ← Urdu چَمْچَہ ← Classical Persian چَمْچَه
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The story

  1. Proto-Turkic · derived from*kamïč
  2. Classical Persian · derived fromچَمْچَه
  3. Urdu · borrowed fromچَمْچَہ“yesman, sycophant, hanger-on, lackey, pet, puppet, stooge”
  4. Hindi · borrowed fromचमचा
  5. English todaychamcha

Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi चमचा (camcā) / Urdu چَمْچَہ (camca, “yesman, sycophant, hanger-on, lackey, pet, puppet, stooge”, literally “spoon”)), from Classical Persian چَمْچَه (čamča), from Turkic, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kamïč,.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.