bilä

Gagauz

Cyrillic		билӓ

Alternative forms

• bilea (pre-1950's spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈlæ/
• Hyphenation: bi‧lä

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بیله (bilä), from Proto-Turkic *bile. Compare Turkish bile, Azerbaijani belə. Doublet of -län.

Adverb

bilä

1. together, along

   Synonyms: barabar, birerdä, ortalıkta

   arkadaşlarımnan bilä örüdük ― we walked together with my friends

2. even

   bunu uşak bilä annêêr ― even a child understands this

Further reading

• Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “bilea”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 15
• Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “bilä”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary]‎^[1], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 90
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “билӓ”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 83
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “bilä”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 31

Etymology 2

Deverbal of bilemää (“to sharpen”). Compare Turkish bile.

Noun

bilä (definite accusative bileyi, plural bilelär)

1. whetstone, grindstone

Declension

Declension of bilä

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	bilä	bilelär
definite accusative (belirtme)	bileyi	bileleri
dative (yönelme)	bileyä	bilelerä
locative (bulunma)	biledä	bilelerdä
ablative (çıkma)	biledän	bilelerdän
genitive (tamlayan)	bilenin	bilelerin

Derived terms

• bilä taşı (“whetstone”)

Further reading

• Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “bilä”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary]‎^[2], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 90
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “билӓ”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 83