aydın
adjective- bright, illuminated
- enlightened, intellectual
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Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “my” ending is -ım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: aydınında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: aydınıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
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Modern çağın eşiğine gelindiğinde ise dilin sadeleşmesi ve öz kaynaklarına dönmesi gerektiği düşüncesi aydınlar arasında oldukça geniş bir yankı bulmuştur.
When the threshold of the modern era was reached, however, the idea that the language should be simplified and return to its pure sources found quite a wide resonance among intellectuals.
Aynı şekilde, Osmanlı aydınları da Avrupa'daki düşünsel gelişmeleri ve yeni akımları yine bu kişilerin titizlikle hazırladığı metinler aracılığıyla takip edebiliyorlardı.
In the same way, Ottoman intellectuals were also able to follow intellectual developments and new movements in Europe through the texts meticulously prepared by these individuals.
Sonunda mahallenin sözü geçen aydınları ve esnaf temsilcileri, bu amansız zaman karmaşasına kesin bir son vermek amacıyla büyük bir kule saati yaptırmaya karar verdiler.
Eventually, the neighborhood's influential intellectuals and tradesmen representatives decided to have a large clock tower built in order to put a definitive end to this relentless time chaos.
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