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kucak.

embrace

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/ku.dʒɑk/

  1. embrace

    Yalnız kalan kadın titriyor, hıçkırarak kucağındaki yavrusunu sıkıyor.

  2. lap, bosom

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوجاق (kucak), from قوچمق (kuçmak, “to hug”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kūč- (“to embrace”). Compare dialectal kuç- (“to hug”). Cognate with Kazakh құшақ (qušaq, “embrace”), Kyrgyz кучак (kucak, “embrace”), Southern Altai кучак (kučak, “embrace, armful”), Uzbek quchoq (“embrace”), Uyghur قۇچاق (quchaq, “embrace”), Bashkir ҡосаҡ (qosaq, “embrace”), Turkmen gujak (“embrace”).

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