C. E. Bosworth: ČAḠRĪ BEG DĀWŪD. In: Ehsan Yarshater (Hrsg.): Encyclopædia Iranica. (englisch, iranicaonline.org – mit Literaturangaben). Zitat: “ČAḠRĪ BEG DĀWŪD b. Mīḵāʾīl b. Saljūq, Abū Solaymān (b. in the 380s/990s, d. 452/1060), a member of the Saljuqs, the leading family of the Oghuz Turks, who with his brother Ṭoḡrel (Ṭoḡrïl) Beg (q.v.) founded the Great Saljuq dynasty in Persia in the 5th/11th century. All the subsequent rulers of this dynasty, as well as those of the Saljuqs of Kermān (descendents of Qāvord b. Čaḡrī) and of Syria (descendents of Totoš b. Alp Arslān), derived from him. The name Čaḡrī (Čaḡrï) is Turkish and literally means “small falcon, merlin” (Clauson, S. 410).”
