enmää

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یَكْمَكْ (yeŋmäk), from Proto-Turkic *yẹŋ-. Compare Turkish yenmek, Azerbaijani yenmək.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enˈmæː/
• Hyphenation: en‧mää

Verb

enmää (third-person singular simple present ener)

1. (transitive, somewhat uncommon) to win, to defeat, to beat

   Synonym: ensemää

Derived terms

• enilmää
• ensemää

 

Further reading

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “enmää”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 177