brakmaa

Gagauz

Cyrillic бракмаа

Alternative forms

  • bracmac (pre-1950's spelling)
  • braamaa

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish براقمق (bıraqmaq), from Proto-Turkic *bïrak-. Compare Turkish bırakmak, Azerbaijani buraxmaq.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /brɑkˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: brak‧maa

Verb

brakmaa (third-person singular simple present brakar or brakır)

  1. (transitive) to leave, to abandon
    aaç brakmaato leave hungry
    brakma beni bırda
    don't leave me here
  2. (transitive) to leave, to quit
    işini braktıhe left his job
  3. (transitive) to let, to allow
    Synonyms: izin etmää, kolvermää
    brakmamaa olsun cenkto not let war occur
    brak konuşsunlet him speak
  4. (transitive) to let go, to release
    Synonym: kolvermää
  5. (ditransitive) to leave, to leave behind, to leave something after departure or death

Derived terms

  • brakılmaa
  • brakım
  • brakmak
  • eldän brakmaa

Further reading

  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “bracmac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 18
  • Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “brakmaa”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 103
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “бракмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 93
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “brakmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 36