dam
noun C1- roof
- cowshed, sheep cote (a structure where animals are held)
- lockup, jail
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: damında. 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: damıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
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Öter guş-ı ruhumda boş bir enin,
Boğuk bir tezad-ı sukun u tanın;
Küçük, pür heves, gevherin katreler
Sokaklarda, damlarda pür ihtizaz
Olur muttasıl nevha-ger, nağme-saz
Sokaklarda, damlarda pür ihtizaz
Küçük, pür heves, gevherin katreler...
Peynirden damla damla su akınca dev, bu gencin taştan bile su çıkarabildiğini sanmış.
When water ran drop by drop from the cheese, the giant thought that this young man could get water even out of a stone.
Zaman, diye düşündüm, belki de bir nehir değil, bu yağmur gibi bir şeydir: Her damla başka, ama hepsi aynı taşlara düşer.
Time, I thought, is perhaps not a river but something like this rain: every drop is different, yet they all fall on the same stones.
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