basamak

By surface analysis, bas- +‎ -amak.^[1] Either related to or a direct descendant of Ottoman Turkish باصامق (basamak). Compare Turkish basamak

• IPA^(key): /bɑsɑˈmɑk/
• Hyphenation: ba‧sa‧mak

basamak (definite accusative basamaa, plural basamaklar)

1. step, a step on a staircase
2. stone at the threshold of a house

• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “basamak”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 15
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “басамак”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 73

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باصامق (Turkish basamak (“stairs”)).

• IPA^(key): /bâsamak/
• Hyphenation: ba‧sa‧mak

bȁsamak m inan (Cyrillic spelling ба̏самак)

1. (Bosnia) a wooden staircase into a house
2. rung (on a ladder)

• “basamak”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• Isaković, Alija (1993) “basamaci”, in Rječnik karakteristične leksike u bosanskome jeziku [Dictionary of characteristic words of the Bosnian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Wuppertal: Bambi, →ISBN, page 61

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish باصاماق^[1] or باصامق (baṣamaḳ),^[2][3] equivalent to bas- (“to press, to step (on), to tread”) +‎ -amak.^[4]

• IPA^(key): /ba.saˈmak/
• Hyphenation: ba‧sa‧mak

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• Rhymes: -mɑk

basamak (definite accusative basamağı, plural basamaklar)

1. A step or rung of stairs or a ladder.
2. stage, phase
3. (figuratively) A person, place or a circumstance utilized in order to reach a goal; a stepping stone.
4. (arithmetic) Each digit in the order of place value.

• “basamak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “basamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 474