tutmaa

Gagauz

Cyrillic тутмаа

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طوتمق (tutmaq, dutmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tut-. Cognate with Azerbaijani tutmaq, Turkish tutmak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tutˈmaː/
  • Hyphenation: tut‧maa

Verb

tutmaa (third-person singular simple present tutar)

  1. (transitive) to hold
    kapuyu tutmaato hold the door
  2. (transitive) to restrain
    hırsızı tutmaato restrain the thief
  3. (transitive) to rent
    ev tutmaato rent a house
  4. (transitive) to take
    Synonym: almaa
  5. (transitive) to settle, to occupy (a place)
  6. (transitive)to keep, to preserve
  7. (transitive) to last, to continue for
    düün tutmuş üç günthe wedding took three days

Derived terms

compound verbs
  • aazını tutmaa
  • aklında tutmaa
  • başak tutmaa
  • er tutmaa
  • kendini tutmaa
  • lafa tutmaa
  • oruç tutmaa
  • pay tutmaa
  • sinek tutmaa
  • soruya tutmaa
  • taraf tutmaa
  • tayfa tutmaa
  • yas tutmaa
  • tutuklamaa

Further reading

  • Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “tutmaa”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 627
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 163