قبماق

Karakhanid

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kap- (“to snatch, catch”).

Cognate with Chuvash хып (hyp), Turkish kapmak, Uzbek qopmoq, Kazakh қапу (qapu) and Yakut хап (qap).

Verb

قَبْماقْ (qapmāq) (third-person singular aorist قَبارْ (qapār))

1. (transitive) to grasp, catch, snatch, sieze

   اَرْ توُنْ قَبْدىِ ― Er tōn qapdï̄ ― The man snatched the garment.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kop- (“to rise”).

Cognate with Turkish kopmak.

Verb

قُبْماقْ (qopmāq) (third-person singular aorist قُبارْ (qopār))

1. (intransitive) to rise up, stand up

   اَرْ يُقاروُ قُبْدىِ ― Er yoqārū qopdï̄ ― The man rose.

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 580

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 4