başlamaa

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بَاشْلَمَقْ (başlamaq), from Proto-Turkic *baĺčla-, a derivation from *baĺč.[1] By surface analysis, baş +‎ -la. Cognate to Turkish başlamak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑʃɫɑˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: baş‧la‧maa

Verb

başlamaa (third-person singular simple present başlar)

  1. (intransitive) to start, to begin, to commence
    yaamur başlêêr!
    The rain is starting!
  2. (intransitive) to start to do something
    sürmää başlamaa
    to begin to plow

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “başlamak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 30
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