düzmää

Gagauz

Cyrillic дӱзмӓӓ

Alternative forms

  • diuzmec (pre-1950's spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دوزمك (düzmek), from Proto-Common Turkic *tüz- (to arrange). Cognate with Azerbaijani düzmək and Turkish düzmek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dyzˈmæː/
  • Hyphenation: düz‧mää

Verb

düzmää (third-person singular simple present düzär)

  1. (transitive) to fix, to repair, to amend to mend, to repair, to fix, to to renew, to renovate, to set in order
    Synonym: doorutmaa
  2. (transitive) to build, to create, to make, to construct
    Synonyms: kurmaa, yapmaa, kaldırmaa
  3. (transitive) to smooth out, to plain
  4. (transitive) to tinker, to make
  5. (transitive) to arrange, to prepare, to set up, to tidy up
  6. (transitive, of wine or milk) to dilute
  7. (transitive, of an artwork) to compose, to make, to produce
  8. (transitive, of a musical instrument) to tune

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “diuzmec”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 43
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “düzmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 60
  • András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
  • Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “düzmää”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, pages 230-231
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “дӱзмӓӓ”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 163