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yaşamaa

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Gagauz

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یاشامق (yaşamaq, to live), from Proto-Turkic *yāĺ-ga- (to bloom, to be alive, to blossom), a derivation from Proto-Turkic *yāĺ (fresh, lively, green), *ńāĺ.[1][2] Compare Turkish yaşamak, Azerbaijani yaşamaq, Turkmen ýaşamak. [3]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /jɑʃɑˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: ya‧şa‧mak

Verb

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yaşamaa (third-person singular simple present yaşar)

  1. (intransitive) to live
    Antonym: ölmää
    bubası üz yıl geeri yaşamış
    his dad lived a hundred years ago
  2. (intransitive) to survive, to exist
  3. (intransitive) to live, to reside, to inhabit
    bu er evimiz, neredä yaşêêrız
    this place is our house where we live

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yaşamak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ya:ş”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 975
  3. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Further reading

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  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “йашамаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 128
  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “yaşamaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 89
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “yaşamaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 76