قجماق

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *kūč- (“to embrace”). Cognate with Turkish kucak (“a hug, an embrace”).

Verb

قُجْماقْ (qučmāq) (third-person singular aorist قُجارْ (qučār))

1. (transitive) to embrace

   اُلْ مَنٖى قُجْدٖى

   Ol menī qučdï̄.

   He embraced me.

Descendants

• Chagatai:
  • Uzbek: quchmoq

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kuç-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 590

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 5