tepmää

Gagauz

Cyrillic тепмӓӓ

Alternative forms

  • tepmeac (pre-1950's spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دپمك (depmek), from Proto-Turkic *tep-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tepˈmæː/
  • Hyphenation: tep‧mää

Verb

tepmää (third-person singular simple present tepär)

  1. (transitive) to kick
    Synonym: kıç atmaa
  2. (transitive) to stop giving milk (for a cow)
  3. (transitive) to recoil (of a firearm)

Derived terms

  • tepinmää
  • tepişmää
  • tepmä
  • tepmäk

Further reading

  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “tepmeac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 94
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “тепмӓӓ”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 467
  • Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 653
  • Baboglu, N. İ., Baboglu, İ. İ. (1993) “тепмӓӓ”, in Gagauzça-Rusça hem Rusça Gagauzça Şkola Sözlüü [Gagauz-Russian and Russian-Gagauz School Dictionary], Chișinău: Vivat, →ISBN, page 80