قاچاق

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Pashto[edit]

Noun[edit]

قاچاق • (qāčā́q) m

  1. contraband, smuggling

References[edit]

  • “قاچاق”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.
  • Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “قاچاق”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press

Persian[edit]

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

From Azerbaijani qaçaq (as in qaçaqmalçılıq), from qaçmaq (“to flee, escape”), from Common Turkic *kač- (“to run away, flee”). Related to Turkish kaçmak.

Pronunciation[edit]

Readings
Dari reading? qāčāq
Iranian reading? ğâčâğ
Tajik reading? qočoq

Noun[edit]

Dari قاچاق
Iranian Persian
Tajik қочоқ

قاچاق • (qâčâq) (uncountable)

  1. contraband, illicit substances
  2. smuggling, trafficking, smuggled goods

Derived terms[edit]

Uyghur[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Common Turkic *kačgak, from Proto-Turkic *kač- (“to run away, to flee”).[1][2] Cognates with Turkish kaçak.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

قاچاق • (qachaq) (plural قاچاقلار (qachaqlar))

  1. deserter, fugitive

References[edit]

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kaç-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 589
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*KAč-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading[edit]

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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