bilmää
Gagauz
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بلمك (bilmäk), from Proto-Turkic *bil-.[1] Compare Turkish bilmek, Azerbaijani bilmək, Turkmen bilmek. [2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bilˈmæː/
- Hyphenation: bil‧mää
Verb
bilmää (third-person singular simple present bilär or bilir)
- (transitive) to know, to wit
- sän taa ii bilärsin
- you know better
- (transitive) to know (someone) well
- Synonym: tanımaa
- bän bilärim onu
- I know him
- (auxiliary, suffixed, defective) to be able to
Derived terms
References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bilmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
Further reading
- Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “bilmeac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 15
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “bilmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 31
- Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “bilmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 17
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “билмää”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 84