azmaa

Gagauz

Cyrillic азмаа

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آزمق (azmaq, to stray; for disease to worsen), from Proto-Turkic *āŕ- (to go astray; to miss), the same root of Azerbaijani azmaq and Turkish azmak.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /azˈmaː/
  • Hyphenation: az‧maa

Verb

azmaa (third-person singular simple present azar)

  1. (intransitive) to suppurate, to fester
    Synonym: iirin toplamaa
  2. (intransitive) to become excited

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Further reading

  • Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “azmaa”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 65
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “azmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 23
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “азмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 30