uçmak

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوچمق (“to fly, rise into the air, evaporate”), from Old Anatolian Turkish اوچمق (uçmaq), from Proto-Turkic *uč-. Compare Old Turkic 𐰆𐰲 (uč-), Azerbaijani uçmaq.

• IPA^(key): /utʃˈmak/
• Hyphenation: uç‧mak

uçmak (third-person singular simple present uçar)

1. (intransitive) to fly, to travel through the air, another gas or vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.

   bir kuş uçuyor ― a bird is flying

   yarın Moskova'ya uçacağım ― I'll fly to Moscow tomorrow

2. (intransitive) to transition into the gas state
   1. to sublimate

      Synonym: süblimleşmek

   2. to evaporate

      Synonym: buharlaşmak

3. (intransitive, of color) to fade, to wear off

   Synonyms: çıkmak, kaybolmak

4. (intransitive) to fall from an elevated place

   Synonym: düşmek

5. (intransitive, of abstract things) to be present in a crowd

   Synonyms: belirmek, dolaşmak, gezinmek

6. (intransitive) to disappear
7. (intransitive) to explode, to be blown up

   Synonyms: patlamak, havaya uçmak

8. (intransitive) to fly off
9. (intransitive, figurative) to rejoice, to become extremely happy

   Synonym: sevinmek

10. (intransitive, humorous) to be stolen

    Synonym: çalınmak

11. (intransitive, slang) to get high, to become under the effect of a mood-altering drug
12. (intransitive, religion) to pass on to the afterlife after death
13. (intransitive, Yozgat, Niğde) to collapse

    Synonym: yıkılmak

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوچماق (uçmaq), from Old Anatolian Turkish اوچماق (uçmaq), واچماغ (uçmağ), from Proto-Turkic *uštmag, from Sogdian [script needed] (ʼwštmʼχ, “paradise”). Sogdian borrowing underwent a semantic merge with uçmak (“to fly, rise”), thence the parallels.

Cognate with Kazakh ұжмақ (ūjmaq), Southern Altai учмак (učmak), etc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈutʃ.mak/, /utʃˈmak/
• Hyphenation: uç‧mak

uçmak (definite accusative uçmağı, plural uçmaklar)

1. (obsolete) heaven

   Synonym: cennet

   Antonyms: cehennem, (obsolete) tamu

   • 14th ce., Yunus Emre, Cennetten İleri:

     “Aşık” mı derim ben aña, Tañrı'nıñ uçmağın seve

     When do I ever call the ones who like God’s heaven a “lover”?

2. (dialectal, Sakarya) cliff

   Synonyms: yar, uçurum

• “uçmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “uçmak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “uçmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “uçmak”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi
• “uçmak”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982