bozmaa

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بُوزْمَقْ (bozmaq), from Proto-Turkic *boŕ- (“to damage, destroy”), the same root of Azerbaijani pozmaq and Turkish bozmak.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bozˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: boz‧maa

Verb

bozmaa (third-person singular simple present bozêr)

  1. (transitive) to damage, to destroy a physical thing
  2. (transitive) to spoil, to ruin, to corrupt, to scramble, to dissolve, to disband
  3. (transitive, figurative) to separate people by turning them against each other, or by creating a problem between them
    ara bozmaa
    to separate people
    (literally, “to ruin a gap”)
  4. (transitive) to ruin, to disturb
    uyku bozma
    to disturb someone's sleep

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bozmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Further reading

  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “bozmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 35
  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “bozmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 18
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “бозмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 88
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