tepremää

Gagauz

Cyrillic тепремӓӓ

Alternative forms

  • tepremeac (pre-1950's spelling)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *tepre-. Compare Turkish depremek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tepreˈmæː/
  • Hyphenation: tep‧re‧mää

Verb

tepremää (third-person singular simple present teprär)

  1. (intransitive) to shake, to tremble
    Synonym: sarsılanmaa
  2. (intransitive) to shudder, to startle
    Synonym: titiremää

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “tepremeac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 94
  • Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “tepremää”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 653