قاقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • ققمق (kakmak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kak- (“to strike, tap”);[1] cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (qaq-), Kumyk къакъмакъ (qaqmaq), Kyrgyz кагуу (kaguu), Southern Altai кагар (kagar) and Uzbek qoqmoq.

Verb

قاقمق • (kakmak)

  1. (transitive) to push, tap, to strike chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard
  2. (transitive) to drive, nail, to provide an impetus for motion or other physical change
    Synonym: چاقمق (çakmak)
  3. (transitive) to beetle, mall, to beat with a mall, or mallet, to beat with something heavy

Derived terms

  • آغاج قاقان (ağaç kakan, “woodpecker”)
  • باشه قاقمق (başa kakmak, “to taunt”)
  • قازق قاقمق (kazık kakmak, “to drive in a stake”)
  • قاقان (kakan, “that taps or pushes”)
  • قاقشمق (kakışmak, “to mutually push or tap one another”)
  • قاقلمق (kakılmak, “to be tapped or pushed”)
  • قاقمه (kakma, “act of pushing or tapping”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kakmak
  • → Armenian: խախմիշ (xaxmiš)

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kak-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 609

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