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 tutmaa ― to hold the door

2. (transitive) to restrain

   hırsızı tutmaa ― to restrain the thief

3. (transitive) to rent

   ev tutmaa ― to 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 gün ― the wedding took three days

Derived terms

• tutak
• tutam
• tutkal
• tutturmaa
• tutulmaa
• tutunmaa
• tutuşmaa

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

Related terms

• 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