ekmää

Gagauz

Cyrillic екмӓӓ

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jekˈmæː/
  • Hyphenation: ek‧mää

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اكمك (ekmek), from Proto-Turkic *ek-. Compare Turkish ekmek, Azerbaijani əkmək.

Alternative forms

  • ecmeac (pre-1950's spelling)

Verb

ekmää (third-person singular simple present ekär)

  1. (transitive) to sow, to plant
    Synonyms: (for a seed) saçmaa, (for a plant) dikmää
  2. (ditransitive) to scatter, to disperse, to sprinkle
    Synonyms: saçmaa, ekelemää
Derived terms
  • ekici
  • ekili
  • ekilmää
  • ekin
  • ekinti
  • ektirmää
  • laf ekmää
  • ekelemää

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ekmää

  1. inflection of ekmek (bread):
    1. definite accusative singular
    2. third-person singular possessive
    3. dative singular

Further reading

  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “ecmeac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 47
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “екмӓӓ”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 174
  • Baboglu, N. İ., Baboglu, İ. İ. (1993) “екмӓӓ”, in Gagauzça-Rusça hem Rusça Gagauzça Şkola Sözlüü [Gagauz-Russian and Russian-Gagauz School Dictionary], Chișinău: Vivat, →ISBN, page 192
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “ekmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 292
  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “ekmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 30