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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوغمق (koğmak, kovmak, “to expel, drive away, follow up”), قومق (kovmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish قومق (qovmaq), قوغمق (qoġmaq), from Proto-Turkic *kob- (“to follow, chase”).
Cognate with Karakhanid (kov-, “to follow, chase”), Azerbaijani qovmaq (“to drive away”), Bashkir ҡыуыу (qıwıw, “to chase”), Chuvash хума (huma, “to drive, hunt, chase”), Kazakh қуу (quu, “to chase, banish”), Kyrgyz куу (kuu, “to chase, hunt, drive”), Southern Altai куу- (kuu-, “to pursue, chase, follow”), Turkmen kowmak (“to dismiss, fire, discharge, exile”), Uzbek quvmoq (“to banish, drive”), Gagauz kuumaa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kovˈmak/
- Hyphenation: kov‧mak
Verb
kovmak (third-person singular simple present kovar)
- (transitive) to drive away, kick out, expel, get rid of
- Synonym: defetmek
- Köpek kurdu kovdu. ― The dog drove the wolf away.
- (transitive) to banish, to exile
- Synonym: sürmek
- (transitive) to fire, sack (to terminate an employee’s employment)
- Beni işten kovdun. ― You fired me.
- (transitive, figurative) to end something's existence
- Synonyms: ortadan kaldırmak, yok etmek
- (transitive, archaic) to follow, to chase
- (transitive, Sinop, Ankara, Niğde, Hatay) to make move, to make run
Conjugation
1 The suffixes -ken and -cesine may be suffixed to the base form of any of the following tenses: aorist, continuous, inferential (even when it follows another suffix), and future.
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References
Further reading
- “kovmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “kovmak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Parlatır, İsmail et al. (1998) “kovmak”, in Türkçe Sözlük, 9th edition, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu
- “kovmak”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kovmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük