قالقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kalï- (“to rise”); cognate with Azerbaijani qalxmaq, Bashkir ҡалҡыу (qalqıw), Kazakh қалқу (qalqu), Kyrgyz калкуу (kalkuu), Tatar калку (qalku), Turkmen galkmak, Uzbek qalqmoq and Yakut кылый (kılıy).

Verb

قالقمق • (kalkmak)

1. (intransitive) to rise, to move upwards relative to the ground

   Synonym: یوكسلمك (yükselmek)

2. (intransitive) to get up, ascend, to move in an upward direction
3. (intransitive) to stand up from a lying or sitting position, to become erect

   Synonym: دیكلمك (dikilmek)

4. (intransitive) to uprise, rise up, rebel, revolt, particularly against authority
5. (intransitive, of laws) to become disused or annulled, to cease to be in force
6. (intransitive, of glued things) to come off, to become unpasted or unglued

Derived terms

• دمیر قالقمق (demir kalkmak, “to raise the anchor”)
• روزگار قالقمق (rüzgâr kalkmak, “to rise (of the wind)”)
• طالغه قالقمق (dalğa kalkmak, “to rise (of a wave)”)
• قالقم (kalkım, “a single act of rising”)
• قالقمه (kalkma, “the action of rising”)
• یورك قالقمق (yürek kalkmak, “to feel sick at the stomach”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kalkmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalkmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2360
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قالقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 352b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قالقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 934
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Surgere”, 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 1637
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قالقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3594
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kalk-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1421