sözlük
noun B2- dictionary
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Tap for its suffix chainThe k of sözlük becomes ğ before a vowel: sözlüğüm. The last vowel, ü, is front and rounded, so the “my” ending is -üm.
The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
The k of sözlük becomes ğ before a vowel: sözlüğünde. The last vowel, ü, is front and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ü. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: sözlüğünde. The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
The k of sözlük becomes ğ before a vowel: sözlüğüyle. The last vowel, ü, is front and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -ü. After a vowel, y joins the ending: sözlüğüyle. The last vowel, ü, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
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Bazen saatlerce tek bir kelimenin en uygun karşılığını arar, kalın sözlüklerin yetersiz kaldığı o derin boşlukta kendi hayat tecrübelerine başvurmak zorunda kalırdı.
Sometimes he would search for hours for the most suitable equivalent of a single word, and in that deep void where thick dictionaries fell short, he would have to resort to his own life experiences.
Kaşgarlı Mahmud'un on birinci yüzyılda yazdığı ünlü Türkçe sözlükte “yoğrut” biçiminde geçen kelime, büyük olasılıkla “yoğurmak” ya da “yoğunlaştırmak” anlamındaki bir kökle ilişkilidir.
The word, which appears in the form "yoğrut" in the famous dictionary of Turkish written by Kaşgarlı Mahmud in the eleventh century, is most probably related to a root meaning "to knead" or "to thicken".
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