hamal
noun- porter, carrier, a person who carries luggage and related objects for others
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: hamalında. 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: hamalıyla. The last vowel, ı, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
O sıradan kumaş parçası yeri geldiğinde utangaç bir genç kızın başörtüsüne, terleyen bir hamalın alnını sildiği beze veya yaşlı bir teyzenin şalına dönüşüverir.
That ordinary piece of cloth suddenly transforms into a shy young girl's headscarf, a cloth with which a sweating porter wipes his forehead, or an old aunt's shawl when the time comes.
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