باقماق

Chagatai

Etymology

Inherited from Karakhanid بَقْماقْ (baqmʾq /⁠baqmaq⁠/), from Proto-Turkic *bak-.

Verb

باقماق • (baqmaq) (third-person singular aorist باقار (baqar))

  1. (transitive) to look, look at, inspect, gaze
    Synonym: قاراماق (qārāmāq /⁠qaramaq⁠/)
    • 15th Century, Seikhzada Atayi, edited by Köktekin, Kâzım, دیوان شیخ‌زاده آتایی [dīwān-ı šäyxzādä ātāyi, Diwan of Sheikhzada Atayi], Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, published 2019, →ISBN, page 33:
      ای که خوبلار کوزکوسینده اوزین اظهار ایلاکان
      هم اوزی اول کوزکوکا باقیب مینی زار ایلاکان
      ʾy kh xwblār kwzkwsyndh ʾwzyn ʾẓhār ʾylākān
      hm ʾwzy ʾwl kwzkwkā bāqyb myny zār ʾylākān
      /ey ki xūblar közgüsindä özin izhār äylägän
      häm özi ol közgügä baqıp meni zār äylägän
      /
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

  • باقار (bāqār /⁠baqar⁠/, gaze)
  • باقیش (bāqyš /⁠baqıš⁠/, gaze)
  • باقیشماق (bāqyšmāq /⁠baqıšmaq⁠/, to look at each other)
  • باقیلماق (bāqylmāq /⁠baqılmaq⁠/, to be looked at)
  • باقینماق (bāqynmāq /⁠baqınmaq⁠/, to become addicted)

Descendants

  • Uyghur: باقماق (baqmaq)
  • Uzbek: boqmoq

Further reading

  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870), “باقماق”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 152
  • Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880), “باقماق”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)[2], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 45
  • Ünlü, Suat (2013), Çağatay Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Dictionary of Chagatai Turkic] (in Turkish), Konya: Eğitim Yayınevi, →ISBN, page 96
  • Vámbery, Ármin (1867), Ćagataische sprachstudien[3] (in German), Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, page 243

Uyghur

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai باقماق (bāqmāq /⁠baqmaq⁠/), from Karakhanid بَقْماقْ (baqmʾq /⁠baqmaq⁠/), from Proto-Turkic *bak- (to look, watch). Cognate with Turkish bakmak (to look) and Uzbek boqmoq.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑqmɑq/

Verb

باقماق • (baqmaq)

  1. to look at, to notice, to see
  2. to rely on, to look to (for support)
  3. to watch, to guard, to keep an eye on
  4. to raise, support, provide for, to look after, to take care of
  5. to breed, to bring up, to feed
  6. to search (through), to seek
  7. to follow, to go with, to pay attention to, to act in accordance with