قورقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kork- (“to be afraid, to fear”); cognate with Azerbaijani qorxmaq, Chuvash хӑра (hăra), Kazakh қорқу (qorqu), Kyrgyz коркуу (korkuu), Tatar курку (qurku), Turkmen gorkmak and Uzbek qoʻrqmoq.

Verb

قورقمق • (korkmak)

1. to fear, to be afraid or frightened of something

Derived terms

• قورقلمق (korkulmak, “to be such that one may be in fear of”)
• قورقمه (korkma, “fearing”)
• قورقوتمق (korkutmak, “to terrify”)
• قورقونج (korkunc, “fearful, dreadful”)

 

Related terms

• قورقو (korku, “fear, fright, terror”)

Descendants

• Turkish: korkmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “korkmak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2748
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قورقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 373b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 980
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Timere”, 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 1673
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 3789-3790
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kork-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484