nicä

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish نَچَه (neçä), from Proto-Turkic *neče. By surface analysis, ne +‎ -cä. Compare Turkish nice, Azerbaijani neçə, Turkmen näçe. Usage highly influenced by Russian как (kak).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnid͡ʒæ/
• Hyphenation: ni‧cä

Adverb

nicä

1. (interrogative) how, in what way?

   Synonym: nasıl

   nicä bu iş oldu?

   how did this situation occur?

2. (interrogative) what, which what type of, what kind of?

   nicä insan?

   what type of person?

   nicä hava büün?

   how is the weather today?

3. to such degree, as, just as

   Synonym: kadar

   biyaz nicä kaar

   White as snow

4. (exclamative) particle used to express emotion, surprise, regret and intensity, how, oh!

   nicä canım acêêr ona!

   oh how I pity him!

   Nicä! Sän misin genä!

   Oh! Isn't that you again.

Derived terms

• nicäsä

Conjunction

nicä

1. as, in that way, just as, like

   Synonym: gibi

   yaptım, nicä dediniz

   I did as you said

   nicä biliner

   as known

2. when, at the time, as

   Synonym: açan

Preposition

nicä

1. as, in the role of

   Synonym: olarak

   sana nasaat ederim, nicä bir dost

   I advise you, as a friend

Further reading

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 345
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 120
• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 59