tonowçu / tonawçu
/tonowtʃu/, /tonawtʃu/
1. robber, bandit, plunderer, one who robs — Also spelled tonawçu. Compare çaçıb tonawçu "burglar" and qazawatda tonawçu "looter" (one who loots in wartime).
- çaçıb tonowçu — burglar
- qazawatda tonowçu — looter
- tonowçu üyge kirdi — a robber got into the house
- tonowçulanı tutdula — they caught the robbers
- ol tonowçu edi — he was a robber
- tonowçula elge kirdile — the plunderers entered the village
- tonowçunu tutarğa — to seize the robber
- ala barı teŋiz tonawçula — they are all sea robbers
2. robbing, predatory, of robbers — Used before a noun, as in tonowçu jıyın "a robber band". Russian dictionaries translate it with adjectives meaning predatory or of bandits.
- tonowçu jıyın — a robber band
- tonowçu qawum — a band of plunderers