چاقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited 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