kovmak
Meaning
- (transitive) to drive away, kick out, expel, get rid of
- (transitive) to banish, to exile
- (transitive) to fire, sack (to terminate an employee’s employment)
- (figuratively, transitive) to end something's existence
- (archaic, transitive) to follow, to chase
- (Niğde, transitive) to make move, to make run
Concepts
separate out
wave aside
excrete <extrete>
Synonyms
sürgün etmek
koğmak
kapı dışarı etmek
dışarı atmak
defetmek
yol vermek
sepetlemek
sürgüne göndermek
deniz kazası geçirmek
uçaktan atlamak
yaka paça çıkarmak
arabayla uzaklaşmak
kışkışlamak
ıskartaya ayırmak
ıssız adada bırakmak
bir köşeye atmak
kırmızı kart göstermek
yuhalayarak kovmak
sınırdışı etmek
kafasından atmak
oybirliği ile atmak
ıskartaya çıkarmak
aklından çıkarmak
boş kağıt oynamak
gözetlemek
kağıt atmak
savuşturmak
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koʋ.mak/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوغمق (koğmak, kovmak, “to expel, drive away, follow up”), قومق (kovmak), from Old Anatolian Turkish قومق (qovmaq), قوغمق (qoġmaq), from Proto-Turkic *kob- (“to follow, chase”). 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”), Gagauz kuumaa.
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