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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوجاق (kucak), from قوچمق (koçmak, “to hug”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kūč- (“to embrace”). Compare dialectal kuç- (“to hug”).
Cognate with Kazakh құшақ (qūşaq, “embrace”), Kyrgyz кучак (kucak, “embrace”), Southern Altai кучак (kučak, “embrace, armful”), Uzbek quchoq (“embrace”), Uyghur قۇچاق (quchaq, “embrace”), Bashkir ҡосаҡ (qosaq, “embrace”), Turkmen gujak (“embrace”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kucak
- embrace
Yalnız kalan kadın titriyor, hıçkırarak kucağındaki yavrusunu sıkıyor.- The lonely woman is shaking, sobbing and squeezing her baby in her arms.
- lap, bosom
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Further reading
- “kucak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu