قوقمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kok- (“to smell badly, to give out a smell of burning”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kokˈmak/

Verb

قوقمق • (kokmak)

(intransitive) to smell
(intransitive) to stink, to reek

Derived terms

قوقو (koku)
قوقولو (kokulu, “scented; fragrant”)

Descendants

Turkish: kokmak

See also

قوقلامق (koklamak)

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1491
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 985

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