korkmak

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (intransitive) to fear
2. (intransitive) to be afraid[with ablative]

Etimologie (Engels)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قورقمق (korkmak, “to be afraid”), itself from Proto-Turkic *kork-. Cognate with Azerbaijani qorxmaq, Crimean Tatar qorqmaq, Kazakh қорқу (qorqu), Kyrgyz коркуу (korkuu), Uzbek qoʻrqmoq, Chuvash хӑра (hăra).