قرقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïrk- (“to shear; to scrape”); cognate with Azerbaijani qırxmaq, Bashkir ҡырҡыу (qırqıw), Kazakh қырқу (qyrqu), Kyrgyz кыркуу (kırkuu), Turkmen gyrkmak and Uzbek qirqmaq. Compare also Mongolian хяргах (xjargax, “to cut, shear”) and Dongxiang ghigva (“to cut”), both borrowings from Turkic.

Verb

قرقمق • (kırkmak)

1. (transitive) to clip, shear, trim, to cut slightly, especially the fleece of a sheep

   Synonym: قرپمق (kırpmak)

Derived terms

• قرقدرمق (kırkdırmak, “to make or let be shorn”)
• قرقلمق (kırkılmak, “to be clipped or shorn”)
• قرقمه (kırkma, “act of clipping or shearing”)
• قرقندی (kırkındı, “act of clipping or shearing”)
• قرقیم (kırkım, “act of clipping or shearing”)

 

Related terms

• قرقی (kırkı, “sheep shears”)
• قرمق (kırmak, “to break”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kırkmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kırkmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2626
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قرقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 362a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 955
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tondere”, 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 1678
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قرقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3674
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kırkmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1447