bilgin
noun B1- A learned person, pundit, scholar.
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: bilgininde. 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: bilginiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
From the library
On yedinci yüzyılda İstanbul'da Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi adında zeki bir bilgin yaşıyordu.
In the seventeenth century, a smart scholar named Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi lived in Istanbul.
Hangi bilginin kalıcı olarak silinmeyi hak ettiğine veya hangisinin mutlak surette genel fayda taşıdığına karar verecek yegane merciin kim olacağı sorusu, başlı başına büyük bir muammadır.
The question of who will be the sole authority to decide which information deserves to be permanently deleted or which absolutely carries general benefit is in itself a great enigma.
Türkçe, bilginin kaynağını cümlenin asıl yapısı içinde açıkça belirtme zorunluluğu ile bu zihinsel inşa sürecinde son derece benzersiz bir örnektir.
Turkish is an extremely unique example in this mental construction process with its obligation to explicitly state the source of information within the main structure of the sentence.
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