lamba
noun B2- lamp (oil device producing light)
- light bulb
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in lambam.
The last vowel, a, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: lambasında. 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: lambasında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: lambasıyla. The last vowel, a, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: lambasıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Phrases
From the library
Karşı evlerin pencerelerinde lambalar birer birer yandı; tül perdelerin ardında, yüzlerini hiçbir zaman göremeyeceğim insanların gölgeleri sofra kuruyor, çay demliyordu.
In the windows of the houses opposite, lamps came on one by one; behind the tulle curtains, the shadows of people whose faces I would never see were setting tables and brewing tea.
Yıkık dökük eski ahşap evler, soluk ışıklı loş sokak lambaları ve kış günlerinin o kurşuni gökyüzü, kentin ruhunu yansıtan çok güçlü imgelerdir.
Dilapidated old wooden houses, dim street lamps with pale light, and that leaden sky of winter days are very powerful images reflecting the soul of the city.
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