yelkovan
noun- minute hand
- weather vane
- shearwater
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “my” ending is -ım.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: yelkovanında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: yelkovanıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Ne var ki bu sözde kusursuz muvazene, saatin hassas mekanizmasını o kadar yormuştu ki, devasa akrep ve yelkovan tamamen durmuş, zaman meydanda adeta donup kalmıştı.
However, this supposedly perfect equilibrium had exhausted the clock's delicate mechanism so much that the colossal hour and minute hands had completely stopped, and time had practically frozen still in the square.
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