# چاقمق
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Alternative forms

* چَقْمَقْ (çaqmaq)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *č(i)ak- (“to hit, strike”)

### Verb

چَاقْمَقْ (çaqmaq)
* (transitive) to make ignite, to start a fire, usually with a flint stone
* (transitive) to hit, to strike
* (transitive, figurative, of people) to divide, to separate by making them hate each other
* (transitive) to reflect
* (transitive) to expose, to reveal the truth

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: çaxmaq
* Gagauz: çakmaa
* Ottoman Turkish: چاقمق (çakmak)
** Turkish: çakmak
** → Armenian: չախմիշ (čʻaxmiš)

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çakmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük.

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çakmak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 861
* Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 100, 109

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چَاقْمَقْ (çaqmaq), from Proto-Turkic *č(i)ak- (“to hit, strike”); cognate with Azerbaijani çaxmaq.

### Verb

چاقمق • (çakmak)
* (transitive) to drive, nail, to provide an impetus for motion or other physical change
    Synonym: قاقمق (kakmak)
* (transitive) to strike, to cause or produce suddenly by a stroke, as fire by friction
* (transitive) to snap at someone or something, to attempt to seize or bite with the teeth
* (transitive, figuratively) to obstentatiously exhibit subservient devotion towards a superior

#### Derived terms

* آتش چاقمق (ateş çakmak, “to strike fire”)
* چاقدرمق (çakdırmak, “to make or let be nailed on”)
* چاقشمق (çakışmak, “to elicit fire from one another”)
* چاقلمق (çakılmak, “to be driven in, like a nail”)
* چاقم (çakım, “a single act of striking”)
* چاقمه (çakma, “the act of striking or nailing”)
* چاقیش (çakış, “a way or manner of striking”)
* چاقین (çakın, “sparkle”)

#### Related terms

* چاقماق (çakmak, “firestriker, firesteel”)
* چاقی (çakı, “penknife, clasp.knife”) $^?$

#### Descendants

* Turkish: çakmak
* → Armenian: չախմիշ (čʻaxmiš)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çakmak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 861
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چاقمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 176b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاقمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 462
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Elicere ignem”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 457
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاقمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1553
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çak-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاقمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 707