enmää

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یَكْمَكْ (yeŋmäk), from Proto-Turkic *yẹŋ-. Compare Turkish yenmek, Azerbaijani yenmək.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /enˈmæː/
  • Hyphenation: en‧mää

Verb

enmää (third-person singular simple present ener)

  1. (transitive, somewhat uncommon) to win, to defeat, to beat
    Synonym: ensemää

Derived terms

Further reading

  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “enmää”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 177
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