bostancı
noun C1- truck gardener, market gardener, someone who grows herbs and vegetables in a garden
- bostanji, a member of one of the imperial guards of the Ottoman Empire
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in bostancım.
The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: bostancısında. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: bostancısında. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: bostancısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is back and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -sı. After a vowel, y joins the ending: bostancısıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
Words from it
From the library
Bostancılar, tebdilağaları, bir hafta kadar bütün şehri, civar köyleri, kasabaları, dağları, kırları dolaştılar.
Tarihi surların gölgesinde çalışan bostancılar, atalarından öğrendikleri kadim sulama ve ekim tekniklerini modern dünyanın dayatmalarına rağmen yaşatmaya gayret etmektedir.
The gardeners working in the shadow of the historical city walls strive to keep alive the ancient irrigation and planting techniques they learned from their ancestors, despite the impositions of the modern world.
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