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Gagauz
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چَاقْمَقْ (çaqmaq), from Proto-Turkic *č(i)ak- (“to hit, strike”),[1] the same root of Azerbaijani çaxmaq and Turkish çakmak.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑkˈmɑː/
- Hyphenation: çak‧maa
Verb
çakmaa (third-person singular simple present çakêr)
- (transitive, of fire) to strike, to cause to ignite by friction, usually by the help of a flint
- (transitive) to hammer, to strike with a hammer
- (transitive, of lighting) to strike
çimçirik çaktı- lightning stroke
- (transitive, figurative) to hit hard, to strike
çakmaa bir şamar- to strike with a slap
- (transitive, figurative) to pour a beverage
çakmaa birär filcan şarap- to pour a glass of wine (for everyone present)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çakmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
Further reading
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “чакмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 525