Ottoman Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *čap- (to beat, hit; attack; rob);[1] cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (čapmaq, to do hurriedly, slap on), Azerbaijani çapmaq (to cut, chop, cleave), Chuvash ҫуп (śup), Crimean Tatar şapmaq (to run) and Turkmen çapmak (to run).

Verb

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چاپمق (çapmak)

  1. (intransitive) to run, trot, canter, gallop
  2. (transitive) to raid, pillage, sack, plunder
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Descendants

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  • Turkish: çapmak

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čap-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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