buumaa
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Gagauz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (bogmaq) and Ottoman Turkish بوغمق (boğmak), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bog-. Compare Turkish boğmak.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]buumaa
- (transitive) to strangle, to choke
- (transitive) to drown
- (figurative, transitive) to completely submerge underwater