basmaa
Gagauz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بَاصْمَقْ (basmaq), بَصْمَقْ (basmaq), from Proto-Turkic *bas- (“to press”), the same root of Azerbaijani basmaq and Turkish basmak.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]basmaa (third-person singular simple present basêr)
- (transitive) to tread on, to step on
- ayak basmamış er
- a never-stepped-on place
- (transitive) to press, to exert pressure upon, to squeeze
- (transitive, figurative) to come, to take over, to overwhelmingly feel (a feeling or a state)
- suuklar bastı
- the cold came
- uyku bastı
- sleep took over
- (transitive) to push on, to attack
- (transitive) to invade, to raid
- (transitive) to print (with a printing press or a printer)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “basmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
Further reading
[edit]- Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “basmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 15
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “basmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 27
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “basmaa”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN