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/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: köç‧mək

Verb

köçmək (intransitive)

  1. to move, to change residence
    Biz keçən il təzə evimizə köçdükLast 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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