yıkıntı
noun- Scattered pieces of a thing that collapsed or was demolished; debris, wreckage, rubble.
- A building in a heavy disrepair; a derelict, dilapidated building.
- Destruction, devastation.
- Mental devastation.
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in yıkıntım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yıkıntısında. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: yıkıntısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yıkıntısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: yıkıntısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Özellikle İstanbul gibi koca bir imparatorluğun yıkıntıları üzerine kurulan eski şehirlerde hüzün, bireysel bir ruh sağlığı sorunundan ziyade, toplumsal ve paylaşılmış bir ruh hâlidir.
Especially in old cities built on the ruins of a huge empire like Istanbul, melancholy is a social and shared state of mind rather than an individual mental health problem.
Tanpınar için bu büyük kent, geçmiş ile geleceğin kesiştiği, eski anıların ve yıkıntıların son derece gizemli bir güzellik sunduğu rüya gibi bir uzamdır.
For Tanpınar, this great city is a dream-like space where the past and the future intersect, and where old memories and ruins offer an extremely mysterious beauty.
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