قرغاماق

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karga-. Compare Old Anatolian Turkish قرغامق (qarġamaq).

Verb

قَرْغاماقْ (qarğāmaq) (third-person singular aorist قَرْغارْ (qarğar))

1. (transitive) to curse, to damn

   تَنْكرٖی اَنٖی قَرْغادٖی ― teŋri anı qarğādï ― god has cursed him

Derived terms

• قَرْغِشْ (qarğïš, “curse”)

Further reading

• Mahmud al-Kashgari (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 III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 290.
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “karğa:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 665