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almaa

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Gagauz

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آلمق (almaq), from Proto-Turkic *ạl-.[1] Compare Turkish almak, Azerbaijani almaq.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɑɫˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: al‧maa

Verb

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almaa (third-person singular simple present alır or alar)

  1. (transitive) to take, to receive
  2. (transitive) to take, to pick up
    karandaşlarını al
    pick up your pens
  3. (transitive) to skim off
    çorbanın köpüünü almaa
    to skim off the cream of the soap
  4. (transitive) to take away
    insannarın haklarını almaa
    to take away people's rights
  5. (ditransitive) to buy, to purchase
    onnara bir demet çiçek aldık
    we bought them a bouquet of flowers
  6. (transitive) to take, to conquer
  7. (transitive) to give money in exchange of temporary service, to hire, to rent
    bir işçi almaato hire a worker
    taksi almaato rent a car

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “almak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Further reading

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  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “almaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 11
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “almaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 14
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “almaa”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 42