kucak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قوجاق‎ (kucak), from قوچمق‎ (koçmak, “to hug”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kūč- (to embrace). Compare dialectal kuç- (“to hug”).

Cognate with Kazakh құшақ (qūşaq, “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”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ku.dʒɑk/

Noun

kucak

  1. embrace
  2. lap, bosom

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Further reading
  • kucak in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
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