sahaf
noun- bibliopole (bookseller)
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: sahafında. 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: sahafıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Güneşli bir cumartesi sabahı, İstanbul'un meşhur ve tarihi Sahaflar Çarşısı'na gitmeye karar verdi.
On a sunny Saturday morning, she decided to go to Istanbul's famous and historical Secondhand Booksellers' Bazaar.
“Kusura bakmayın,” dedi, “geçen yıl evimizi boşaltırken yanlışlıkla bir atlası da satmışım; Kadıköy'deki sahaflardan birine gittiğini söylediler.”
"Excuse me," she said, "last year, while we were emptying our house, it seems I sold an atlas too by mistake; they told me it had gone to one of the second-hand booksellers in Kadıköy."
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