dalmaa

Gagauz

Cyrillic далмаа

Alternative forms

  • dalmac (pre-1950's spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طالمق (dalmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tāl- (“to sink”), the same root of Azerbaijani dalmaq and Turkish dalmak.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɑlˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: dal‧maa

Verb

dalmaa (third-person singular simple present dalar)

  1. (intransitive) to dive, to jump into a body of water

Derived terms

  • daldırmaa
  • uykuya dalmaa

References

  1. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Further reading

  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “dalmac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 39
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “далмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 131
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “dalmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 50
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