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Gagauz
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طوتمق (tutmaq, dutmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tut-. Cognate with Azerbaijani tutmaq, Turkish tutmak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tutˈmaː/
- Hyphenation: tut‧maa
Verb
tutmaa (third-person singular simple present tutar)
- (transitive) to hold
- kapuyu tutmaa ― to hold the door
- (transitive) to restrain
- hırsızı tutmaa ― to restrain the thief
- (transitive) to rent
- ev tutmaa ― to rent a house
- (transitive) to take
- Synonym: almaa
- (transitive) to settle, to occupy (a place)
- (transitive)to keep, to preserve
- (transitive) to last, to continue for
- düün tutmuş üç gün ― the wedding took three days
Derived terms
Further reading
- Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “tutmaa”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük , Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 627
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 163