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Gagauz
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بَاصْمَقْ (basmaq), بَصْمَقْ (basmaq), from Proto-Turkic *bas- (“to press”), the same root of Azerbaijani basmaq and Turkish basmak.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑsˈmɑː/
- Hyphenation: bas‧maa
Verb
basmaa (third-person singular simple present basêr)
- (transitive) to tread on, to step on
ayak basmamış er- a never-stepped-on place
- (transitive) to press, to exert pressure upon, to squeeze
- (transitive, figurative) to come, to take over, to overwhelmingly feel (a feeling or a state)
suuklar bastı- the cold came
uyku bastı- sleep took over
- (transitive) to push on, to attack
- (transitive) to invade, to raid
- (transitive) to print (with a printing press or a printer)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “basmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
Further reading
- Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “basmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 15
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “basmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 27
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “basmaa”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN