büük

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Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بِیُوكْ (beyük), from Proto-Turkic *bedük (big), derived from *bedü- (to grow big).[1][2] By surface analysis, büü- +‎ -ük. Compare Turkish büyük, Azerbaijani böyük. [3]

Pronunciation

Adjective

büük (comparative taa büük or büüräk, superlative en büük)

  1. big, large, grand, greater in size
    Antonym: küçük
    büük gözlär
    big eyes
  2. (animate) old by age, old, elder
  3. important, of great importance
    • 2024 November 7, “Büün gagauzların en büük yortularından birisi – Kasım yortusu”, in Ana Sözü:
      Kasım ayın 7-dä gagauzlar bakêrlar en büük yortularından birisi – Kasım yortusu
      The Gagauz people are celebrating one of the most important festivals at November the 7th - November festival
  4. strong, great, glorious
    Synonym: ulu
    büük Gagauz halkı
    great Gagauz nation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “büyük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bedük”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 302
  3. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Further reading

  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “бӱӱк”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 101
  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “büük”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 19
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “büük”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 39