Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاقمق (kakmak, to push, tap), from Proto-Turkic *KAk- (to hit, knock, tear).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (qaq-, to hit), Kyrgyz кагуу (kaguu, to knock), Southern Altai кагар (kagar, to knock), Uzbek qoqmoq.

Verb

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kakmak (third-person singular simple present kakar)

  1. (transitive) to beetle, tack down, mall
  2. (transitive) to embed, inlay
  3. (transitive) to push, tap sth. in
  4. to inscribe

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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