Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish قوغمق (kovmak, to expel, drive away, follow up), from Proto-Turkic *kob- (to follow, chase).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (kov-, to follow, chase), Azerbaijani qovmaq (to drive away), Bashkir ҡыуыу (qıwıw, to chase), Chuvash хума (huma, to drive, hunt, chase), Kazakh қуу (quu, to chase, banish), Kyrgyz куу (kuu, to chase, hunt, drive), Southern Altai куу- (kuu-, to pursue, chase, follow), Turkmen kowmak (to dismiss, fire, discharge, exile), Uzbek quvmoq (to banish, drive).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /koʋ.mak/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: kov‧mak

Verb edit

kovmak (third-person singular simple present kovar)

  1. (transitive) to drive (someone) away, to kick out, expel, get rid of
    Adamlar onu tehdit edip evden kovdular.[Some/the] Men threatened [him/her] and kicked [him/her] out
  2. (transitive) to fire, sack
    Yaptığı düzensizlikler ortaya çıkınca hemen işten kovuldu.When the irregularities he made surfaced, he was sacked from his job immediately.

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References edit

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