olmaa

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Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اُولْمَقْ (olmaq), from Proto-Turkic *bōl-. Compare Turkish olmak, Azerbaijani olmaq, Turkmen bolmak.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /u̯oɫˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: ol‧maa

Verb

olmaa (third-person singular simple present olar)

  1. (copulative) to be
  2. (copulative) to become
    üürenmiş olmaa
    to become a scholar
    • 2022 June 15, Ana Sözü, ““Turkish Airlines” adı “Turkiye Hava Yolları” olêr”, in Ana Sözü:
      “Turkish Airlines” adı “Turkiye Hava Yolları” olêr
      Turkish Airlines' name becomes "Türkiye Hava Yolları"
  3. (intransitive) to happen, to pass, to occur
    ne oldu sana?
    what happened to you
    • 2024 October 24, Ana Sözü, “Aaçlık kurbannarı: başkancıklardan genä hiç “çıt” ta çıkmadı”, in Ana Sözü:
      Ölä olêr, açan kendiniz kendinizi unudêrsınız.
      This is what happens when you yourself forget yourself (forget your culture)
  4. (transitive, with possessive markers) to have
    olmadı vakıdım
    I didn't have time
  5. (intransitive) to ripen, to mature
    booday olêr
    wheat is ripening
  6. (of time) to elapse, to pass
  7. (transitive, with possessive markers) to get, to receive (recently)
    onnarın iki uşaa oldu
    they got 2 kids

Usage notes

  • No verb is usually used to convey "to be". This word is usually used to emphasize if used that way.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “olmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “olmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 60
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “olmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 122
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “олмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 350