قاپمق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kap-.

Verb

قَاپْمَقْ • (qapmaq)

1. (transitive) to seize, to grab, to snatch

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: qapmaq
• Gagauz: kapmaa
• Ottoman Turkish: قاپمق (kapmak)
  • Turkish: kapmak

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قپمق (kapmak)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kap- (“to snatch, take”).

Verb

قاپمق • (kapmak)

1. to snatch, to seize, to grab

Related terms

• قاپشمق (kapışmak, “to go around and pillage, to stroll to plunder”)
• قاپامق (kapamak, “to close, to shut”)
• قپو / قاپو (kapu, “door”)
• قپاق (kapak, “cover”)
• قاپان (kapan, “snatching, seizing, grabbing”)
• 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”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kapmak
• → Armenian: խափմիշ (xapʻmiš)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قپمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3619
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قاپمق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 675