sevk

Meaning

  1. The act of sending, consignment, dispatch.
  2. The act of compelling to move, propulsion, impulse.

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsevc/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سوق (sevk, “a driving, urging, sending, an inciting”), from Arabic سَوْق (sawq, “driving, mobilization”), verbal noun of سَاقَ (sāqa, “to drive, to conscript, to pilot”).

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