bozmaa
Gagauz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بُوزْمَقْ (bozmaq), from Proto-Turkic *boŕ- (“to damage, destroy”), the same root of Azerbaijani pozmaq and Turkish bozmak.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bozmaa (third-person singular simple present bozêr)
- (transitive) to damage, to destroy a physical thing
- (transitive) to spoil, to ruin, to corrupt, to scramble, to dissolve, to disband
- (transitive, figurative) to seperate people by turning them against each other, or by creating a problem between them
- ara bozmaa
- to separate people
- (literally, “to ruin a gap”)
- (transitive) to ruin, to disturb
- uyku bozma
- to disturb someone's sleep
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bozmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
Further reading
[edit]- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “bozmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 35
- Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “bozmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 18
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “бозмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 88