kilim
noun C1- carpet
- rug
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “my” ending is -im.
The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -i. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: kiliminde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -i. After a vowel, y joins the ending: kilimiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
From the library
Kadınlar, günlük işlerden arta kalan zamanlarında kök boyası kullanarak rengarenk kilimler dokur ve atalarından kalan motifleri yaşatırlar.
In their spare time left over from daily chores, women weave colorful rugs using madder and keep the motifs left from their ancestors alive.
Bir kilimin geometrik desenlerine, bir köy kadınının başındaki yazmaya ya da bir Karagöz perdesine dikkatle bakan herkes, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu'nun resimlerinde tanıdık bir şeyler bulur.
Anyone who looks carefully at the geometric patterns of a kilim, at the printed scarf on a village woman's head or at a Karagöz shadow screen finds something familiar in Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu's paintings.
Köylerde gördüğü kilimler, nakışlı çoraplar, oyalı yazmalar ve kalıpla basılmış kumaşlar, ona Avrupa müzelerinde bulamadığı bir zenginlik sundu.
The kilims, patterned socks, scarves with lace edges and block-printed cloths he saw in villages offered him a richness he had not found in the museums of Europe.
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