dolmaa
Gagauz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طُولْمَقْ (dolmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tōl- (“to be full”), the same root of Azerbaijani dolmaq and Turkish dolmak.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]dolmaa (third-person singular simple present dolêr)
- (intransitive) to be filled, to fill up, to be full
- içerisi doldu insannan
- the inside filled up with people
- (figurative, intransitive, of eyes) to fill up (with tears); to become about to cry
- gözleri doldu
- he is about to cry
- (figurative, intransitive) to get crowded
- (figurative, intransitive, of time) to be up, to be completed, to come to an end
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dolmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “долмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 154
- Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “dolmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 27
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “dolmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 56