قاچمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *kač- (“to run away, flee”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰲 (qač-), Azerbaijani qaçmaq, Bashkir ҡасыу (qasıw), Kazakh қашу (qaşu), Kyrgyz качуу (kacuu), Turkmen gaçmak, Uyghur قاچماق (qachmaq) and Uzbek qochmoq.

Verb

قاچمق • (kaçmak)

  1. (intransitive) to flee, escape, run away, abscond, to get free or to free oneself
  2. (intransitive) to desert, to leave a military or naval unit without permission
  3. (intransitive) to avoid, evade, evite, shun, to keep away from something unwanted

Derived terms

  • قاچار (kaçar, “fleeing, that flees”)
  • قاچاغان (kaçagan, “much given to fleeing”)
  • قاچاق (kaçak, “runaway, fugitive”)
  • قاچاماق (kaçamak, “flight, rout”)
  • قاچان (kaçan, “fleeing, that flees”)
  • قاچرمق (kaçırmak, “to make or let flee”)
  • قاچشمق (kaçışmak, “to flee towards or with one another”)
  • قاچغین (kaçgın, “fugitive, deserter”)
  • قاچنمق (kaçınmak, “to seek to avoid”)
  • قاچه‌جق (kaçacak, “that is about to flee”)

Descendants

  • Gagauz: kaçmaa
  • Turkish: kaçmak
  • → Ladino: kacherear, kachirear

Further reading

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