اوچمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *uč- (“to fly”); cognate with Azerbaijani uçmaq, Bashkir осоу (osow), Chuvash вӗҫ (vĕś), Kazakh ұшу (ūşu), Kyrgyz учуу (ucuu), Turkmen uçmak, Uyghur ئۇچماق (uchmaq) and Uzbek uchmoq.

Verb

اوچمق • (uçmak)

1. (transitive) to fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface
2. (transitive) to evaporate, volatilize, to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state
3. (transitive) to fade, to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color

Derived terms

• اوچار (uçar, “flying, that flies”)
• اوچرتمق (uçurtmak, “to make or let fly”)
• اوچرمق (uçurmak, “to make or let fly”)
• اوچشمق (uçuşmak, “to fly together”)
• اوچمه (uçma, “act of flying”)
• اوچنمق (uçunmak, “to make as though about to fly”)
• چیغ اوچمق (çiğ uçmak, “for an avalanche to fall”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: uçmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uçmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4962
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوچمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 76a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوچمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 177
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Volare”, 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 1787
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوچمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 492
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “uç-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوچمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 240