dalmaa

Gagauz

Cyrillic		далмаа

Alternative forms

• dalmac (pre-1950's spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طالمق (dalmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tāl- (“to sink”), the same root of Azerbaijani dalmaq and Turkish dalmak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑlˈmɑː/
• Hyphenation: dal‧maa

Verb

dalmaa (third-person singular simple present dalar)

1. (intransitive) to dive, to jump into a body of water

Derived terms

• daldırmaa
• uykuya dalmaa

Further reading

• Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “dalmac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 39
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “далмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 131
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “dalmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 50