dolmaa

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طُولْمَقْ (dolmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tōl- (“to be full”), the same root of Azerbaijani dolmaq and Turkish dolmak.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doɫˈmɑː/
  • Hyphenation: dol‧maa

Verb

dolmaa (third-person singular simple present dolêr)

  1. (intransitive) to be filled, to fill up, to be full
    içerisi doldu insannan
    the inside filled up with people
  2. (figurative, intransitive, of eyes) to fill up (with tears); to become about to cry
    gözleri doldu
    he is about to cry
  3. (figurative, intransitive) to get crowded
  4. (figurative, intransitive, of time) to be up, to be completed, to come to an end

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–) “dolmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “долмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 154
  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “dolmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 27
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “dolmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 56
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