datmaa

• datmac (pre-1950's spelling)

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طاتمق (datmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tāt-. Compare Turkish tatmak, Azerbaijani dadmaq, Turkmen datmak.

• IPA^(key): /dɑtˈmɑː/
• Hyphenation: dat‧maa

datmaa (third-person singular simple present dadar)

1. (transitive) to taste, to try

   Synonym: denemää

   datmadaan acıdan, bilemeycän ne o tatlı

   you can't know what is sweet without tasting from the bitter

2. (transitive) to experience, to taste

   kısmettän datmaa ― to taste happiness

• Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “datmac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 39
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “датмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 134
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “datmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 51
• Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “datmaa”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 181