iskele
noun B2- wharf, pier, quay, dock, jetty, any artificial landing place for ships on a shore or bank
- gangway, an articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or ship
- larboard, port, the left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow
- scaffold, scaffolding, staging, a structure made of wood or tubes on which workers stand
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in iskelem.
The last vowel, e, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: iskelesinde. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: iskelesinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: iskelesiyle. The last vowel, e, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: iskelesiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
Phrases
From the library
Benim için o gün, annemle iskelede simit alıp martılara atmaya çalıştığım soğuk ve rüzgârlı bir kış sabahıydı.
For me, that day was a cold, windy winter morning when I bought a simit at the pier with my mother and tried to throw it to the seagulls.
Vapur iskeleden ayrılırken martılar, sanki yolculuğun asıl sahipleri onlarmışçasına çığlık çığlığa geminin peşine takılır.
As the ferry pulls away from the pier, the seagulls follow the boat, shrieking, as if they were the true owners of the journey.
Türk edebiyatında vapurun, iskelelerin ve martıların bu kadar sık karşımıza çıkması da elbette bir tesadüf değildir.
Nor is it, of course, a coincidence that the ferry, the piers and the seagulls come up so often in Turkish literature.
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