kucak

== Turkish == === Etymology === Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوجاق (kucak), from قوچمق (kuçmak, “to hug”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kūč- (“to embrace”). Compare dialectal kuç- (“to hug”). Cognate with Kazakh құшақ (qūşaq, “embrace”), Kyrgyz кучак (kucak, “embrace”), Southern Altai кучак (kučak, “embrace, armful”), Uzbek quchoq (“embrace”), Uyghur قۇچاق (quchaq, “embrace”), Bashkir ҡосаҡ (qosaq, “embrace”), Turkmen gujak (“embrace”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ku.dʒɑk/ === Noun === kucak embrace lap, bosom ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== kucaklamak kucaklaşmak ==== Further reading ==== “kucak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu