okumaa

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اُوقِیمَقْ (oqımaq), اُوخِیمَقْ (oḫımaq), from Proto-Turkic *okï- (“to call, read, recite”), the same root of Azerbaijani oxumaq and Turkish okumak.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /okuˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ku‧maa

Verb

okumaa (third-person singular simple present okur or okuyar)

  1. (transitive) to read
    kiyadını okudum ― I read your book
  2. (transitive) to bless, to enchant, specifically with prayers
  3. (intransitive) to study at, to be a student at

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
  2. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “okumak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “окумаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, pages 349-350
  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “okumaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 60
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “okumaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 122
  • Baskakov, N. A. (1991) “okumaa”, in İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 186
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