قاچمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *kač- (“to run away, flee”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰲 (qač-), Azerbaijani qaçmaq, Bashkir ҡасыу (qasıw), Kazakh қашу (qaşu), Kyrgyz качуу (kacuu), Turkmen gaçmak, Uyghur قاچماق (qachmaq) and Uzbek qochmoq.

Verb

قاچمق • (kaçmak)

1. (intransitive) to flee, escape, run away, abscond, to get free or to free oneself
2. (intransitive) to desert, to leave a military or naval unit without permission
3. (intransitive) to avoid, evade, evite, shun, to keep away from something unwanted

Derived terms

• قاچار (kaçar, “fleeing, that flees”)
• قاچاغان (kaçagan, “much given to fleeing”)
• قاچاق (kaçak, “runaway, fugitive”)
• قاچاماق (kaçamak, “flight, rout”)
• قاچان (kaçan, “fleeing, that flees”)
• قاچرمق (kaçırmak, “to make or let flee”)
• قاچشمق (kaçışmak, “to flee towards or with one another”)
• قاچغین (kaçgın, “fugitive, deserter”)
• قاچنمق (kaçınmak, “to seek to avoid”)
• قاچه‌جق (kaçacak, “that is about to flee”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: kaçmaa
• Turkish: kaçmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaçmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2316
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قاچمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 349a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاچمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 922
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fugere”, 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 624
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاچمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3575
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaç-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاچمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1408