چوق

See also: جوق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Cognate with Azerbaijani çox, Turkmen çok, from Proto-Turkic *čok (“many, very; to gather, multiply”).

Adverb

چوق • (çok)

1. much, many, a lot

Descendants

• Gagauz: çok (çoy-)
• Turkish: çok (çoğ-)
• → Crimean Tatar: çoq
• → Karaim: čok

References

• "Proto-Turkic Root: *čok; Number 51" in Georgiy Starostin, Tower of Babel, Copyright 1998-2003 by S. Starostin.
• Berta, Árpád (1999) “Zur Etymologie des tü. čok ‘viel, sehr’”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia‎^[1], volume 4, pages 7–26
• Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869–1871) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “چوق”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “چوق”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean