ekmää

Gagauz

Cyrillic		екмӓӓ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jekˈmæː/
• Hyphenation: ek‧mää

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اكمك (ekmek), from Proto-Turkic *ek-. Compare Turkish ekmek, Azerbaijani əkmək.

Alternative forms

• ecmeac (pre-1950's spelling)

Verb

ekmää (third-person singular simple present ekär)

1. (transitive) to sow, to plant

   Synonyms: (for a seed) saçmaa, (for a plant) dikmää

2. (ditransitive) to scatter, to disperse, to sprinkle

   Synonyms: saçmaa, ekelemää

Derived terms

• ekici
• ekili
• ekilmää
• ekin
• ekinti
• ektirmää
• laf ekmää

Related terms

• ekelemää

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ekmää

1. inflection of ekmek (“bread”):
   1. definite accusative singular
   2. third-person singular possessive
   3. dative singular

Further reading

• Ciachir, Mihail (1938), “ecmeac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 47
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “екмӓӓ”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 174
• Baboglu, N. İ.; Baboglu, İ. İ. (1993), “екмӓӓ”, in Gagauzça-Rusça hem Rusça Gagauzça Şkola Sözlüü [Gagauz-Russian and Russian-Gagauz School Dictionary], Chișinău: Vivat, →ISBN, page 192
• Kopuşçu M. İ., Todorova S. A., Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “ekmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 292
• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “ekmää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 30