datmaa

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Gagauz

Cyrillic датмаа

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طاتمق (datmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tāt-. Compare Turkish tatmak, Azerbaijani dadmaq, Turkmen datmak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɑtˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: dat‧maa

Verb

datmaa (third-person singular simple present dadar)

  1. (transitive) to taste, to try
    Synonym: denemää
    datmadaan acıdan, bilemeycän ne o tatlı
    you can't know what is sweet without tasting from the bitter
  2. (transitive) to experience, to taste
    kısmettän datmaato taste happiness

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “datmac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 39
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “датмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 134
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “datmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 51
  • Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “datmaa”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 181