çok

Etymology

From çuk, an onomatopoeia.

Noun

çok m (plural çoka, definite çoku, definite plural çokat)

1. little hammer (for cleaving stone)

   Synonym: typth

2. doorknocker
3. clapper (bells)
4. protuberance, tip (of bone jointures)
5. beak
6. (small, round) pebble (of the size of a nut, generally used in children's games)
7. (white) cue ball (pool)
8. blunt side of a blade
9. nonsense, hogwash

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چُوقْ (çoq), from Proto-Turkic *čok. Compare Turkish çok, Azerbaijani çox, Crimean Tatar çoq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃok/

Adverb

çok

1. a lot, so much, much, very, quite

   Synonym: pek

   seni çok severim

   I love you so much

Determiner

çok

1. many, a lot of

   çok yıl geçti

   many years has passed

2. more than one, multiple

   bunu çok kere yaptım

   I did this multiple times

Further reading

• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 24
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 48
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “çok”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 549

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing. Compare Turkish çökmek (“to kneel”) and Azerbaijani çökmək (“to kneel”). Partially replaced native jinû.

Noun

çok m

1. knee

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish çok.

Adverb

çok (not comparable)

1. (slang, intensifier) Alternative form of cok (“very”)

Etymology

From a Turkic source. Cognate with (but likely not direclty borrowed from) Azerbaijani çağ. Compare also Persian چاق.

Adjective

çok

1. good

   Synonym: fər

2. kind, nice

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چوق (çok), from Proto-Turkic *čok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʃɔk]

• Audio:

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Determiner

çok (comparative daha çok, superlative en çok)

1. much, many, plenty, a lot

Adverb

çok

1. very, too

Synonyms

• köp (dialectal)

Antonyms

• az

Descendants

• → Swedish: cok

Further reading

• çok in Reverso (Turkish-English)