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Word Origin | Kumpas, Kumpas Kurmak

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"O cemaat orduya kumpas kurdu." 
Yalçın Akdoğan (AK Party Politician and Adviser to PM)

Mavi Boncuk | Kumpas Kurmak: to plot. Taking steps to achieve something.

Kumpas: from ITcompasso  compass EN pergel TR Latin con+passo step EN adim TR

Pergel : from Persian pargār پرگار  compass EN daire çizme aygıtı TR  Avestan per+2pairi-kāra- çevre-eden  TR to turn around EN.

Compass: (v.) c.1300, "to devise, plan;" early 14c. as "to surround, contain, envelop, enclose;" from Anglo-French cumpasser, from compass (n.). Related: Compassed; compassing. compass (n.) Look up compass at Dictionary.com c.1300, "space, area, extent, circumference," from Old French compas "circle, radius, pair of compasses" (12c.), from compasser "to go around, measure, divide equally," from Vulgar Latin *compassare "to pace out" (source of Italian compassare, Spanish compasar), from Latin com- "together" (see com-) + passus "a step" 

Pace: (n.) late 13c., "a step in walking; rate of motion," from Old French pas "a step, pace, trace," and directly from Latin passus, passum "a step, pace, stride," noun use of past participle of pandere "to stretch (the leg), spread out," probably from PIE *pat-no-, a nasalized variant of root *pete- "to spread" (cf. Greek petannynai "to spread out," petalon "a leaf," patane "plate, dish;" Old Norse faðmr "embrace, bosom," Old English fæðm "embrace, bosom, fathom," Old Saxon fathmos "the outstretched arms"). Also, "a measure of five feet" [Johnson]. Pace-setter in fashion is from 1895.


The mathematical instrument so called from mid-14c. The mariners' directional tool (so called since early 15c.) took the name, perhaps, because it's round and has a point like the mathematical instrument. The word is in most European languages, with a mathematical sense in Romance, a nautical sense in Germanic, and both in English. 




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