قاراماق
Chagatai
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *kara-, from Mongolic. Cognate with Crimean Tatar qaramaq.
Verb
قاراماق • (qārāmāq /qaramaq/) (third-person singular aorist قارار (/qarar/))
- (transitive) to look
- Synonym: باقماق (bāqmāq /baqmaq/)
- (transitive) to wait, to expect
- چاغنی قاراماق ― čāġ-ny qārāmāq /čaġnı qaramaq/ ― to wait for the correct time
Derived terms
- قاراب تورماق (qārāb twrmāq /qarab turmaq/, “to be patient with”)
- قاراتماق (qārātmāq /qaratmaq/, “to cause to look away”)
- قاراراماق (qārārāmāq /qararamaq/, “to look far away”)
- قاراش (qārāš /qaraš/, “gaze, view, sight”)
- قاراشماق (qārāšmāq /qarašmaq/, “to look at each other, to be seen”)
- قاراغاندا (qārāġāndā /qarağanda/, “concerning, regarding”)
- قارالاماق (qārālāmāq /qaralamaq/, “to look at frequently”)
Related terms
- قاراول (qārāwl /qarawal, qarawul/, “watchtower”)
Descendants
Further reading
- el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881), “قاراماق”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary][1] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 217
- Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880), “قاراماق”, 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 141
- Vámbery, Ármin (1867), “قاراماق”, in Ćagataische sprachstudien[3] (in German), Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, page 310