چوكمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čök-.

Verb

چوكمك • (çökmek)

  1. to come down
  2. to collapse
  3. to kneel
    ديز چوكمك ― diz çökmek ― to kneel down
  4. to settle to the bottom of liquid; to precipitate

Derived terms

  • چوكدرمك (çökdürmek, “to make come down, make kneel”)
  • چوكندی (çükündu, “debris, wreckage, deposits”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: çökmek
  • → Georgian: დაჩოქება (dačokeba)
  • → Middle Armenian: չոքել (čʻokʻel)

References

  • Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Сравнительный словарь турецко-татарских наречий [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 497
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوكمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 480
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوكمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739
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