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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

korkmak.

to fear

7 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/koɾkˈmak/

  1. to fear

    intransitive
    En çok hangi hayvandan korkarsın?

  2. to be afraid

    intransitive
    Örümceklerden korkarım.
Where this word comes from

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

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