قرقمق

From Proto-Turkic *kïrk- (“to shear, scrape”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qırxmaq (“to shave”), Turkmen gyrkmak (“to scrape”), Southern Altai кыркар (kïrkar, “to cut”), etc.

Compare also Mongolian хяргах (xjargax, “to cut, shear”) and Dongxiang ghigva (“to cut”), borrowings from Turkic.

قرقمق • (kırkmak)

1. to clip, shear

• قرقی (kırkı, “sheep shears”)
• قرمق (kırmak, “to break”)

• Turkish: kırkmak

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kırkmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1447