reis
noun B2- president
- leader
- captain of a small boat
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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: reisinde. 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: reisiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
Phrases
From the library
Piri Reis, hem denizciliği hem de haritacılığıyla tanınan, on altıncı yüzyılda yaşamış bir Osmanlı amiralidir.
Piri Reis is an Ottoman admiral who lived in the sixteenth century, known for both his seamanship and his mapmaking.
Gelibolu'da yetişen Piri Reis, gençliğini ünlü denizci amcası Kemal Reis'in gemilerinde geçirerek Akdeniz'i karış karış tanıdı.
Piri Reis, who grew up in Gallipoli, spent his youth on the ships of his famous seafaring uncle Kemal Reis and came to know every inch of the Mediterranean.
Piri Reis bu notlarda, haritayı yaklaşık yirmi eski haritadan yararlanarak derlediğini açıkça belirtir.
In these notes, Piri Reis states clearly that he compiled the map using some twenty older maps.
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