بقماق

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bak- (“to look at”).[1]

Cognate with Chuvash пӑх (păh), Turkish bakmak, Uzbek boqmoq, Bashkir бағыу (bağıw), Yakut бык (bık).

Verb

بَقْماقْ (baqmāq) (third-person singular aorist بَقارْ (baqār))

(intransitive) to look at
اُلْ مَنْكا بَقْدىِ ― Ol maŋā baqtï̄. ― He looked at me.

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bak-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 311

Further reading

al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 16

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