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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

kovmak.

to drive away, kick out, expel, get rid of

6 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb/kovˈmak/
  1. to drive away, kick out, expel, get rid of

    transitive
    Köpek kurdu kovdu.
  2. to banish, to exile

    transitive
  3. to fire, sack (to terminate an employee’s employment)

    transitive
    Beni işten kovdun.
  4. to end something's existence

    figuratively · transitive
  5. to follow, to chase

    archaic · transitive
  6. to make move, to make run

    Niğde · transitive
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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