قوقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kok- (“to smell badly, to give out a smell of burning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kokˈmak/

Verb

قوقمق • (kokmak)

1. (intransitive) to smell
2. (intransitive) to stink, to reek

Derived terms

• قوقو (koku)
• قوقولو (kokulu, “scented; fragrant”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kokmak

See also

• قوقلامق (koklamak)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1491
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 985