چوكمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čök-.

Verb

چوكمك • (çökmek)

1. to come down
2. to collapse
3. to kneel

   ديز چوكمك ― diz çökmek ― to kneel down

4. to settle to the bottom of liquid; to precipitate

Derived terms

• چوكدرمك (çökdürmek, “to make come down, make kneel”)
• چوكندی (çükündu, “debris, wreckage, deposits”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çökmek
• → Georgian: დაჩოქება (dačokeba)
• → Middle Armenian: չոքել (čʻokʻel)
  • Armenian: չոքել (čʻokʻel)

References

• Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 497
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوكمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 480
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوكمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739