asa
noun C1- scepter
- stick used to walk
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in asam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: asasında. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: asasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: asasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: asasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Elindeki baston ise kahramanın sürdüğü atın kırbacı, gıcırdayan bir kapıyı çalan tokmak ya da yaşlı bir dedenin dayandığı asa olarak hikâyenin akışına yön verir.
The cane in his hand, on the other hand, directs the flow of the story as the whip of the horse the hero rides, a knocker knocking on a creaking door, or the staff an old grandfather leans on.
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