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turuncu

adjective
  1. orange
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turuncuorange mmy

After a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in turuncum.

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Oturduğu banktan yavaşça kalkıp evinin yolunu tutarken, gökyüzü yavaş yavaş turuncu ve morun en büyüleyici tonlarına bürünmeye, akşam usulca çökmeye başlamıştı.

As she slowly got up from the bench she was sitting on and headed home, the sky had slowly begun to take on the most mesmerizing shades of orange and purple, and evening had begun to fall softly.

Moda'nın Çevirmeni, p. 1 · C1
Gökyüzü, gün batımının yaklaşmasıyla birlikte turuncu, kızıl ve mor tonlarının birbirine kusursuzca karıştığı, izlemeye doyulmayan muazzam bir yağlı boya tabloya dönüşüyordu.

With the approach of sunset, the sky was turning into a magnificent oil painting that one could not get enough of watching, where shades of orange, crimson, and purple blended flawlessly into one another.

Ayvalık'ta Kış Uykusu, p. 1 · C2

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