basmaa

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بَاصْمَقْ (basmaq), بَصْمَقْ (basmaq), from Proto-Turkic *bas- (“to press”), the same root of Azerbaijani basmaq and Turkish basmak.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑsˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: bas‧maa

Verb

basmaa (third-person singular simple present basêr)

  1. (transitive) to tread on, to step on
    ayak basmamış er
    a never-stepped-on place
  2. (transitive) to press, to exert pressure upon, to squeeze
  3. (transitive, figurative) to come, to take over, to overwhelmingly feel (a feeling or a state)
    suuklar bastı
    the cold came
    uyku bastı
    sleep took over
  4. (transitive) to push on, to attack
  5. (transitive) to invade, to raid
  6. (transitive) to print (with a printing press or a printer)

Derived terms

References

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

Further reading

  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “basmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 15
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “basmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 27
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “basmaa”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN
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