kucak
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوجاق (kucak), from قوچمق (koçmak, “to hug”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kūč- (“to embrace”). Compare dialectal kuç- (“to hug”).
Cognate with Kazakh құшақ (qūşaq, “embrace”), Kyrgyz кучак (kucak, “embrace”), Southern Altai кучак (kučak, “embrace, armful”), Uzbek quchoq (“embrace”), Uyghur قۇچاق (quchaq, “embrace”), Bashkir ҡосаҡ (“embrace”), Turkmen gujak (“embrace”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kucak
- embrace
- Yalnız kalan kadın titriyor, hıçkırarak kucağındaki yavrusunu sıkıyor.
- The lonely woman is shaking, sobbing and squeezing her baby in her arms.
- lap, bosom
Declension
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kucak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu