چاقمق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

• چَقْمَقْ (çaqmaq)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *č(i)ak- (“to hit, strike”)

Verb

چَاقْمَقْ (çaqmaq)

1. (transitive) to make ignite, to start a fire, usually with a flint stone
2. (transitive) to hit, to strike
3. (transitive, figurative, of people) to divide, to seperate by making them hate eachother
4. (transitive) to reflect
5. (transitive) to expose, to reveal the truth

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: çaxmaq
• Gagauz: çakmaa
• Ottoman Turkish: چاقمق (çakmak)
  • Turkish: çakmak
  • → Armenian: չախմիշ (čʻaxmiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çakmak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 861
• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 100, 109

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چَاقْمَقْ (çaqmaq), from Proto-Turkic *č(i)ak- (“to hit, strike”); cognate with Azerbaijani çaxmaq.

Verb

چاقمق • (çakmak)

1. (transitive) to drive, nail, to provide an impetus for motion or other physical change

   Synonym: قاقمق (kakmak)

2. (transitive) to strike, to cause or produce suddenly by a stroke, as fire by friction
3. (transitive) to snap at someone or something, to attempt to seize or bite with the teeth
4. (transitive, figuratively) to obstentatiously exhibit subservient devotion towards a superior

Derived terms

• آتش چاقمق (ateş çakmak, “to strike fire”)
• چاقدرمق (çakdırmak, “to make or let be nailed on”)
• چاقشمق (çakışmak, “to elicit fire from one another”)
• چاقلمق (çakılmak, “to be driven in, like a nail”)
• چاقم (çakım, “a single act of striking”)
• چاقمه (çakma, “the act of striking or nailing”)
• چاقیش (çakış, “a way or manner of striking”)
• چاقین (çakın, “sparkle”)

Related terms

• چاقماق (çakmak, “firestriker, firesteel”)
• چاقی (çakı, “penknife, clasp.knife”) ^?

Descendants

• Turkish: çakmak
• → Armenian: չախմիշ (čʻaxmiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çakmak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 861
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چاقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 176b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 462
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Elicere ignem”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 457
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1553
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çak-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 707