کورماک

Chagatai

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kör-. Cognate with Bashkir күреү (kürew), Kazakh көру (köru), Turkish görmek.

Verb

کورماک • (kwrmāk /körmäk/) (third-person signular aorist کورار (/⁠körär⁠/))

  1. (transitive) to see
    کون‌نی کورماکkwn-ny kwrmāk /künni körmäk/ ― to see the sun
    • 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 90:
      کاه کاهی ایل کوروب حسنونکنی حیران بولسه‌لار
      مین سینی کورکان‌سایین ارتار بورونغی حیرتیم
      kāh kāhy ʾyl kwrwb ḥsnwnkny ḥyrān bwlsh-lār
      myn syny kwrkān-sāyyn ʾrtār bwrwnġy ḥyrtym
      /gāh gāhī el körüp hüsnüŋni häyrān
      men seni körgänsäyin artar burunġı häyrätim
      /
      now and then, may the others see your beauty and be amazed
      let me desire you, and my previous amazement increases
  2. (transitive) to regard, to deem, to see, to view, to judge, consider, look upon in a given way
    Synonym: توتماق (twtmāq /⁠tutmaq⁠/)
    روا کورماکrwā kwrmāk /räwā körmäk/ ― to deem appropriate
    عجایب کورماکʿjāyb kwrmāk /'äjāyib körmäk/ ― to regard as weird
  3. (transitive) to witness, to see or gain knowledge of through experience.
    ارقا کورماکʾrqā kwrmāk /arqa körmäk/ ― to witness someone escaping
  4. (transitive) to see, to understand, to comprehend
  5. (transitive) to encounter, to go through, to live through, to witness
    جفالار کورماکjfālār kwrmāk /jäfālar körmäk/ ― to go through suffering
  6. (transitive) to visit
  7. (transitive) to try to do something, to attempt
  8. (transitive) to find
    Synonym: تاپماق (tapmaq)
  9. (transitive) to look towards, to direct one's gaze towards, to direct one's face towards

Derived terms

  • ایش کورماک (ʾyš kwrmāk /⁠iš körmäk⁠/, to work)
  • توش کورماک (twš kwrmāk /⁠tüš körmäk⁠/, to dream)
  • کورساتماک (kwrsātmāk /⁠körsätmäk⁠/, to show)
  • کورماک‌لیک (kwrmāk-lyk /⁠körmäk-lik⁠/, meeting)
  • کوروش (kwrwš /⁠körüš⁠/, an act of seeing; sight, view)
  • کوروشماک (kwrwšmāk /⁠körüšmäk⁠/, to see each other; to meet)
  • کورولماک (kwrwlmāk /⁠körülmäk⁠/, to be seen)
  • کوروم‌لوک (kwrwm-lwk /⁠körüm-lük⁠/, worthy of being seen)
  • کورونماک (kwrwnmāk /⁠körünmäk⁠/, to make oneself seen; to appear, to seem)
  • کورک (kwrk /⁠körk⁠/, beauty, glory)
  • کورکان (kwrkān /⁠körägän⁠/, beautiful; a title of Timur)
  • کورکان‌ساماک (kwrkān-sāmāk /⁠körgänsämäk⁠/, to desire)
  • کورکو (kwrkw /⁠körgü⁠/, view, sight)
  • کورکوز (kwrkwz /⁠körküz⁠/, signature)
  • کورکوزماک (kwrkwzmāk /⁠körgüzmäk⁠/), کورکیزماک (kwrkyzmāk /⁠körgizmäk⁠/, to make seen, to show)
  • کوز (kwz /⁠köz⁠/, eye)

Descendants

  • Uyghur: كۆرمەك (körmek)
  • Uzbek: koʻrmoq

Further reading