kovmak.
to drive away, kick out, expel, get rid of
Meaning & usage
to drive away, kick out, expel, get rid of
Köpek kurdu kovdu.
to banish, to exile
to fire, sack (to terminate an employee’s employment)
Beni işten kovdun.
to end something's existence
to follow, to chase
to make move, to make run
Where this word comes from
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 (quwuw, “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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