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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kork- (“to be afraid, to fear”); cognate with Azerbaijani qorxmaq, Chuvash хӑра (hăra), Kazakh қорқу (qorqu), Kyrgyz коркуу (korkuu), Tatar курку (qurku), Turkmen gorkmak and Uzbek qoʻrqmoq.
Verb
قورقمق • (korkmak)
- to fear, to be afraid or frightened of something
Derived terms
- قورقلمق (korkulmak, “to be such that one may be in fear of”)
- قورقمه (korkma, “fearing”)
- قورقوتمق (korkutmak, “to terrify”)
- قورقونج (korkunc, “fearful, dreadful”)
- قورقو (korku, “fear, fright, terror”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “korkmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2748
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قورقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 373b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 980
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Timere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1673
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3789-3790
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kork-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484