𐰴𐰯-
kap-
Meaning:
to snatch
qap- means “to seize or catch in a sudden movement; to snatch”. It is a transitive verb and typically denotes a rapid, forceful and bounded action rather than simply holding something. The object may be seized with the hands, claws, mouth or teeth; the latter use gives rise to the meanings “snap at, bite”.
Examples
Translations
German:
schnappen
Russian:
резко схватить, цапнуть
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
qapmaq
Turkish (Türkiye):
kapmak
Bibliography 1
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Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish580580
1 kap- ‘to grasp, or seize, with the hands, teeth, etc.’; s.i.a.m.l.g. Türkü viii ff. (a falcon, saying ‘there is a hare’) teŋri:din koḏı: . . . kapmı:ş ‘swooped down from the sky (and tried) to catch it’ IrkB 44: Uyğ. viii ff. Bud. anı üçün méni kapıp éltdi ‘he has therefore seized me and carried me off’ U III 69, 26 ff.: Xak. xi er to:n kapdı: ‘the man snatched (xalasa) the garment’ (etc.); and one says oğla:nığ yé:l kapdı: aṣāba’l-ṣabī sa‘fa mina’l-cinn ‘demoniacal possession took hold of the boy’; also used of the wind when it blows away (habbat) a garment and the like Kaş. II 4 (kapa:r, kapma:k); several o.o. generally translated ixtalasa ‘to steal, take stealthily’: KB 6110 (üzeŋü:): xiv Muh. ixtaṭafa ‘to snatch away’ ka:p- Mel. 20, 1; 22, 4; Rif. 99 (kap-), 102: Çağ. xv ff. kap- (‘with -p-’) ‘to seize (rabūdan) with the hands, or grasp (giriftan) with the teeth’, of a dog and the like San. 263v. 9 (quotn.): Xwar. xiv kap- ‘to seize, grasp’ Qutb 126: Kıp. xiii xaṭifa ‘to snatch away’ kap- Hou. 35, 19: xiv ditto İd. 67; Bul. 43v.: xv ditto Kav. 9, 3; 75, 8; Tuh. 15a. 4: Osm. xv kap- ‘to snatch away’; in one text TTS IV 466.
