قاپامق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قپامق (kapamak), قپمق (kapamak)
• գափամագ (kapamak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kapa-, “to close”), from Proto-Turkic *kap- (“to close”).

Verb

قاپامق • (kapamak)

1. to close, to shut

Related terms

• قپو / قاپو (kapu, “door”)
• قاپاق (kapak, “cover”)
• قاپامه / قپامه (kapama, “closed, shut; a kind of stew”)
• قاپلامق (kaplamak, “to cover, to enclose, to envelop, to wrap, to plate, to veneer”)
• قاپالمق (kapalmak, “to be beleaguered, to be besieged”)
• قاپلاتمق (kaplatmak, “to cause to envelop, to make plate”)
• قاپامق (kapamak, “to close, to shut”)
• قاپلامه (kaplama, “covering, wrapper, envelope”)
• قاپلامه‌جی (kaplamacı, “plater, wrapper, layer, one whose business it is to fold around”)
• قاپلایش (kaplayış, “action of enveloping, wrapping”)
• قاپلایجی (kaplayıcı, “plater, wrapper, layer, one whose business it is to fold around”)
• قاپمق (kapmak, “to snatch, to seize”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kapamak

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قپامق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3611
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قاپامق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 674