قرقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïrk- (“to shear; to scrape”); cognate with Azerbaijani qırxmaq, Bashkir ҡырҡыу (qırqıw), Kazakh қырқу (qyrqu), Kyrgyz кыркуу (kırkuu), Turkmen gyrkmak and Uzbek qirqmaq. Compare also Mongolian хяргах (xjargax, “to cut, shear”) and Dongxiang ghigva (“to cut”), both borrowings from Turkic.

Verb

قرقمق • (kırkmak) (third-person singular aorist قرقار (kırkar))

  1. (transitive) to clip, shear, trim, to cut slightly, especially the fleece of a sheep
    Synonym: قرپمق (kırpmak)

Derived terms

  • صاچ صقال قرقمق (saç sakal kırkmak, “to clip the hair and the beard”)
  • قرقدرمق (kırkdırmak, “to make or let be shorn”)
  • قرقلمق (kırkılmak, “to be clipped or shorn”)
  • قرقمه (kırkma, “act of clipping or shearing”)
  • قرقندی (kırkındı, “act of clipping or shearing”)
  • قرقیم (kırkım, “act of clipping or shearing”)
  • ییلانی قرقمق (yılanı kırkmak, “to skin a flint”, literally “to shear a snake”)
  • قرقی (kırkı, “sheep shears”)
  • قرپمق (kırpmak, “to clip, shear”)
  • قیرمق (kırmak, “to break”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kırkmak

Further reading

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