یوکورماک

Chagatai

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yügür-. Cognate with Kipchak yugur, Azerbaijani yüyürmək, Kazakh жүгіру (jügıru).

Verb

یوکورماک (yügürmäk)

  1. (intransitive) to run, to move swiftly
    Synonym: قوشاق (qošmaq)
    • 1484, Ali-Shir Nava'i, فرهاد و شیرین [Farhad and Shirin], page 280b, line 6:
      یوکورماککا اولوس بس کیم قیلیپ میل
      یقیلیپ پرپری اوستیدا هر خیل
      yügürmäkkä ulus bäs kim qilib mäyl
      yiqilib birbiri üstidä här ḫäyl
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

  • یوکروک (yügrük, a horse of good pace)
  • یوکورتماک (yügürtmäk, to make run)
  • یوکورجی (yügürci, the younger brother of one's wife)
  • یوکوروش (yügürüš, the act fo running)
  • یوکوروک (yügürük, fast)

Descendants

  • Uyghur: يۈگۈرمەك (yügürmek)
  • Uzbek: yugurmoq

Further reading

  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) “یوكورماك”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎[1] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 307
  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “یوگورمك”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎[2] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 537
  • Vámbery, Ármin (1867) “یوكورماك”, in Ćagataische sprachstudien[3] (in German), Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, page 354
  • Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880) “یوگورماک”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)[4], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 205