Where does “kaçakçılık” come from?

kaçakçılık (Turkish) comes from Turkish kaçak, from Ottoman Turkish قاجاق, from Proto-Turkic *kāpčak, from Proto-Turkic kāp — sack.

kaçakçılık (Turkish): smuggling; trafficking

Definitions

  1. smuggling; trafficking

Ancestry of “kaçakçılık”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishkaçakfugitive, outlaw, bandit; leakage
2Ottoman Turkishقاجاق—
3Proto-Turkic*kāpčak—
4Proto-Turkickāpsack
Every word from Proto-Turkic kāp →Every word from Proto-Turkic *kāpčak →Every word from Ottoman Turkish قاجاق →