قاراماق

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *kara-, from Mongolic. Cognate with Crimean Tatar qaramaq.

قاراماق (qaramaq) (third-person singular aorist قارار (qarar))

1. (transitive) to look; to try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.

   Synonym: باقماق (baqmaq)

2. (transitive) to wait, to expect; to delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.

   چاغ‌نی قاراماق ― čağ-ni qaramaq ― to wait for the correct time

• Uyghur: قاراماق (qaramaq)
• Uzbek: qaramoq

• el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) “قاراماق”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 217
• Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880) “قاراماق”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)‎^[2], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 141
• Vámbery, Ármin (1867) “قاراماق”, in Ćagataische sprachstudien‎^[3] (in German), Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, page 310

Inherited from Chagatai قاراماق (qaramaq), from Proto-Common Turkic *kara-, from Mongolic.

• IPA^(key): /qɑrɑmɑq/

قاراماق • (qaramaq)

1. (transitive) to look

   دەرىزىدىن قاراماق ― derizidin qaramaq ― to look out the window

2. (transitive) to look after, to keep an eye on, to guard, to tend

   بالىغا قاراماق ― baligha qaramaq ― to look after a child

3. (transitive) to consider, to hold, to deem
4. (transitive) to front
5. (transitive) to wait for, to await

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN, page 613