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Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوغمق (koğmak, kovmak, to expel, drive away, follow up), from Proto-Turkic *kob- (to follow, chase).[1]

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (kov-, to follow, chase), Azerbaijani qovmaq (to drive away), Bashkir ҡыуыу (qıwıw, to chase), Chuvash хума (huma, to drive, hunt, chase), Kazakh қуу (quu, to chase, banish), Kyrgyz куу (kuu, to chase, hunt, drive), Southern Altai куу- (kuu-, to pursue, chase, follow), Turkmen kowmak (to dismiss, fire, discharge, exile), Uzbek quvmoq (to banish, drive).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kovˈmak/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: kov‧mak

Verb

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kovmak (third-person singular simple present kovar)

  1. (transitive) to drive away, kick out, expel, get rid of
    Köpek kurdu kovdu.
    The dog drove the wolf away.
  2. (transitive) to fire, sack (to terminate an employee’s employment)
    Beni işten kovdun.
    You fired me.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kob-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill