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Gagauz
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قَاچَانْ (qaçan), خَاچَانْ (ḫaçan), from Proto-Turkic *kačan, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *ka-. Compare dialectal Turkish haçan, Azerbaijani haçan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑt͡ʃɑn/
- Hyphenation: a‧çan
Adverb
açan
- (interrogative) when
- Synonym: nezaman
Conjunction
açan
- when, at the time at
açan görerlär, ani ...- when they see that...
o geldi, açan bän yoktum evdä- he came when I wasn't at home.
- if, when
- Synonym: eer
açan yok cenk, ölüm dä yok- if there is no war, then there is no death
Further reading
- Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 10
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “page010”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “açan”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 61