كوممك

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *köm-.

Verb

كُومْمَكْ (gömmäk)

1. (ditransitive) to bury
2. (ditransitive) to inter, to bury a dead corpse

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: gömmək
• Gagauz: gömmää
• Ottoman Turkish: گوممك (gömmek)
  • Turkish: gömmek

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish كُومْمَكْ (gömmäk, “to bury”), from Proto-Turkic *köm- (“to bury”). Cognate with Azerbaijani gömmək, Kazakh көму (kömu), Kyrgyz көмүү (kömüü), Southern Altai кӧмӧр (kömör), Uyghur كۆممەك (kömmek), Uzbek koʻmmoq and Yakut көм (köm).

Verb

كوممك • (gömmek) (third-person singular aorist كومر (gömer))

1. (ditransitive) to bury, inter, entomb, tumulate, inhume, to place something or someone in the ground, especially in a tomb

   Synonym: دفن ایتمك (defn etmek)

Derived terms

• كومدرمك (gömdürmek, “to make or let be buried”)
• كوملمك (gömülmek, “to be buried”)
• كوممه (gömme, “buried”)
• كومیلو (gömülü, “buried”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gömmek

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كوممك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 678
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gömmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1746
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوممك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 405a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sepelire”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1541
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوممك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4093
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “göm-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوممك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1602