كڤماق
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Karakhanid[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Common Turkic *kob- (“to pursue”). Cognate with Turkish kovmak, Uzbek quvmoq and Bashkir ҡыуыу (qıwıw).
Verb[edit]
كُڤْماقْ (qovmāq) (third-person singular aorist كُڤارْ (qovār))
- (transitive) to pursue, follow, chase
- اِتْ كَيِكْنٖى كُڤْدٖى ― Ït keyiknī qovdï̄. ― The dog chased the wild game.
References[edit]
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kov-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 580
Further reading[edit]
- 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 16