Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *čap- (to beat, hit; attack; rob);[1] cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (čapmaq, to do hurriedly, slap on), Azerbaijani çapmaq (to cut, chop, cleave), Chuvash ҫуп (śup), Crimean Tatar şapmaq (to run) and Turkmen çapmak (to run).

Verb edit

چاپمق (çapmak)

  1. (intransitive) to run, trot, canter, gallop
  2. (transitive) to raid, pillage, sack, plunder

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: çapmak

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čap-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading edit