kavuşmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قاوشمق (kavuşmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (qavušmaq), from *qabuš-, from Proto-Turkic *kab-. Cognate with Kazakh қауысу (qauysu), Azerbaijani qovuşmaq, etc.

Verb

kavuşmak (third-person singular simple present kavuşur)

1. to meet, to reach, to achieve

   Biz tüm hedeflerimize kavuştuk. ― We have achieved all our goals.

2. to unite (with), to be reunited (with)

   Kayıp çocuğuna dört yıl sonra kavuşacak. ― After four years she will be reunited with her missing child.

Usage notes

What in English would be the direct object of the sense to meet takes the dative case in Turkish.

Derived terms

• kavuşum

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kavuş-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاوشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1426