köçmək

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic көчмәк
Abjad کؤچمک

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *köč- (“to move”)[1] Cognate with Turkmen and Turkish göçmek, Crimean Tatar köçmek, Chuvash куҫ (kuś).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /cœt͡ʃˈmæc/
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  • Hyphenation: köç‧mək

Verb

köçmək (intransitive)

  1. to move, to change residence
    Biz keçən il təzə evimizə köçdük ― Last year, we moved to our new house.
  2. to migrate
    Synonym: köç etmək
    Quşlar baharda isti ölkələrə köçür. ― During the fall, the birds migrate to hot countries.
  3. to get married (of women), to move to husband's household
  4. (figurative) to die, pass away, depart
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ölmək

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*göč-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

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