𐰆đ°Č-

uç-

Meaning:
to fly

Word family

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen uç
Turkish (Azerbaijan) uç
Turkish (TĂŒrkiye) uç
Salar uç
Gagauz uç
Crimean uç
Uyghur uç
Uzbek uch
Kazakh uƟ
Nogai uƟ
Siberian Tatar -
Kyrgyz uç
Altai uç
Alan uç
Kumyk uç
Tatar oç
Bashkir os
Tıva uj
Khakas uç
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) -
Khalaj uç
Chuvash vĕƛ

Examples

Irıq Bitig
2
BilgÀ Qagan
5
KĂŒl Tegin
4

Translations

German:
fliegen
Kazakh:
uƟw
Kyrgyz:
uçuu
Russian:
Đ»Đ”Ń‚Đ°Ń‚ŃŒ, Đ»Đ”Ń‚Đ”Ń‚ŃŒ
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
uçmaq
Turkish (TĂŒrkiye):
uçmak
Turkmen:
uçmak
Uzbek:
uchmoq
  • M RĂ€sĂ€nen (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der TĂŒrksprachen p. 509
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  • Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 19
    uç- basically (of a bird) ‘to fly’, with various metaph. extensions. The oldest is, as an honorific (of a superior), ‘to die’; others are ‘to go with great speed; to disappear; to twitch; (of colours) to fade’, and, at any rate in recent Osm., ‘to be dissolute’. C.i.a.p.a.l. TĂŒrkĂŒ viii KĂŒl Tegin . . . uçdı: ‘KĂŒl Tegin . . . died’ I NE; eçim xağan uça: bardı ‘my (paternal) uncle, the xağan, died’ II E 20; a.o.o. of uça: bar-: viii ff. (the young bird) uça: azdı: ‘lost its way in flight’ IrkB 15; uça: uma:tın ‘because it could not fly’ 61: Uyğ. viii kapım xağan uçdı: ‘my father, the xağan, died’ ƞu. N 12; viii ff. Bud. uçuğma tınlığlarığ ‘flying creatures’ TT IV 8, 57: Civ. kök kalıkda uçar kuƟ ‘birds flying in the sky’ TT I 23; kuğu kuƟ uçtı ‘the swan has flown away’ ditto 215; bu yılda ağa uçup ‘as my elder brother died this year’ USp. 22, 53-4 (post-xiii): Xak. xi kuƟ uçdı: ‘the bird flew’ (áč­Ära); anıƋ kutı: uçdı: ‘his luck deserted him’ (តahaba); er attın kodı: uçdı: ‘the man fell’ (saqaáč­a) ‘off the horse’ . . . er tını: uçdı: inqaáč­a‘a nafsu’l-racul ‘the man’s breath failed’ KaƟ. I 163 (uça:r, uçma:k; two phr. not quoted here belong to öç-, q.v., the last, however, seems to belong here); and four o.o.: KB uç- (of birds) ‘to fly’ 23, 74, etc.; tiriglik uçar ‘life is fleeting’ 231; (if a stool collapses) uçar ol er ‘the man on it falls off’ 803: xiii(?) Tef. uçar kuƟlar 334; At. uçğan yĂŒgĂŒrgen neƋ-e ‘beings that fly or walk’ 6; a.o.o.: xiv Muh. áč­Ära u:ç- (sic) Mel. 28, 12; Rif. 111; al-áč­Ä«rān uçmak 36, 12; 122: Çağ. xv ff. uç- (-mak, etc.) connotes movement, e.g. (of the eye) ‘to twitch’, (of the heart) ‘to flutter’, (of a bird) ‘to fly’, (of sleep) ‘to desert one’ Vel. 94-6 (quotns.); uç- (‘with -ç-’) (1) áč­Ä«rān wa parÄ«dan ‘to fly’; (2) ixtilāc ‘to quiver, twitch’; (3) maáž„w wa ma‘dĆ«m Ɵudan ‘to perish’ San. 62v. 19 (quotns.): Xwar. xiv uç- ‘to fly away’ Qutb 194, MN 351: Kom. xiv ‘to fly’ uç- CCI, CCG; Gr.: Kıp. xiii áč­Ära uç- (cim) Hou. 41, 20: xiv ditto Ä°d. 8, Bul. 60r.: xv ditto Tuh. 24a. 3; uƟ- áč­Ära Kav. 9, 9; 78, 8: Osm. xiv ff. uç- (xv, once uƟ-) is noted in metaph. meanings in TTS I 710; II 934; III 696.