Turkish–English dictionary

yakıt

Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.

yaklaşık

Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. [from before 1150]

yaklaşmak

(ambitransitive) to draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near

yakmak

(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.

yakmalık

A place where the bodies of dead people are cremated.

yakşırak

comparative of the adverb well

Yakub

A en given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.

yakudî

A deep red colour.

Yakup

A en given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.

yakut

(uncountable, printing, UK, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.

yalak

A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

yalaka

(North America, slang, vulgar) Someone who kisses ass (who acts obsequiously in order to gain another's favor).

yalama

Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.

yalamak

The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.

yalan

Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

yalan söylemek

(intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.

yalan yere yemin etmek

(intransitive, or, reflexive) To commit perjury; to break an oath.

yalancı

A person who frequently lies; someone who tells a lie.

yalancı safran

A cultivated thistle-like plant, Carthamus tinctorius, family Asteraceae, now grown mainly for its oil.

yalancı şahit

(countable) A perjurer; a deceptive or misleading witness.

yalancı şahitlik

(legal) The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.

yalancı tanıklık

(legal) The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.

yalancılık

(uncountable) The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.

yalanlamak

(transitive, now, _, rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

yaldız

(uncountable) The art of applying gold leaf to a surface.

yaldızcı

One who gilds; especially one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.

yaldızlamak

(transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.

yalgızgöz

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.

yalın

The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.

yalın ayak

Wearing nothing on the feet.

yalınayak

Wearing nothing on the feet.

yalnız

By oneself, solitary.

yalnızca

Only, simply, merely.

yalnızlık

Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.

yalos

Such a piece of wood that has been cast ashore.

yalpalamak

(intransitive) To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.

Yalta

A city and raion of Crimea, Ukraine.

yaltak

One who flatters.

yaltakçı

(derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady.

yalvaç

Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.

yalvarmak

(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

yam

The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.

yama

A mark on the skin formed before birth.

yamaç

An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

yamamak

(transitive, sewing) To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.

yaman

(semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.

yamçı

A dress made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs of the breed of that name), traditionally worn by men of the Caucasus region.

yamukluk

(countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.

yamyam

An organism which eats others of its own or similar species or kind, especially a human or other human-like creature such as a zombie who consumes human flesh.

yamyamlık

The act of eating another of one's own species.

yan

Used to form present participles of verbs.

yan anlam

(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

yan yana

Side by side and facing forward. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470.)]

yan yana getirmek (normalden birlikte anılmayacak şeyleri)

(transitive) To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.

yanaksal

Pertaining to the cheek.

yanarayı

The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.

yanardağ

A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

yanaşmak

(intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.

yanay

(civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.

yancık

(clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.

yangın

A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

yangın bombası

A weapon that causes fire; an incendiary weapon.

Yangtze

The chief river of central China and the third longest river in the world, flowing a total of 6300 km.

yani

(initialism) That is, namely, in other words, that is to say.

yanıcı

Capable of burning.

yanık

A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

yanılgı

(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.

yanılgılı

Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.

yanılım

(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.

yanılmak

To have an incorrect belief, to be mistaken about one's judgment or statement concerning something. (This entry is a translation hub.)

yanılmaz

Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.

yanılsama

(countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.

yanıltıcı

Deceptive or misleading.

yanıltma

An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

yanında

(obsolete, or, poetic) On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.

yanıt

(legal) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.

yanıtlamak

To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.

yanka

(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.

yankesici

One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.

yankı

A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

yanlış

(computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.

yanlış anlama

A mistake as to the meaning of something or a specific point of view; erroneous interpretation or comprehension; misconception.

yanlış anlamak

(transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

yanlış anlaşılma

An interaction between two parties in which information is/was not communicated as desired.

yanlış ayıklama

(computer science) To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.

yanlış düşünce

Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.

yanlış duymak

(ambitransitive) To hear wrongly.

yanlış inanış

Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.

yanlış yönlendirilmiş

Lacking proper guidance.

yanlışlıkla

By accident; by mistake; in error (without intention to do so).

yanlız

Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present

yanmak

(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.

yansı

The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.

yansılanım

(physics) Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, which is approximately 20 kilohertz.

yansıma

A consequence or ensuing result of some action.

yansımak

(transitive) To reflect, mirror.

yansıtıcı

That reflects, or redirects back to the source.

yansıtım aygıtı

An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen. [from 19th c.]

yansıtımca

The obsolete name for a psychotic disorder, now called delusional disorder, often (in one of six subtypes) characterized by delusions of persecution and a perceived threat against the individual affected with the disorder, and often associated with false accusations and a general mistrust of others

yansıtma

(psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own, including making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.

yansıtmak

(transitive) To reflect, mirror.

yansız

treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased

yansızlık

The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side.

yapağı

(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal

yapan

Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.

yapay

Man-made; made by humans; of artifice.

yapay gübre

(chemistry) A chemical compound created to have the same effect.

yapay uydu

A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth. [from 20th c.]

yapayalnız

Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.

yapı

(countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.

yapı iskelesi

(literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

yapı karkası

(literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

yapı kurucu

One who builds or constructs things.

yapıbilim

The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.

yapıcı

(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".

yapılabilir

Able to be done in practice.

yapılabilirlik

The state of being feasible or possible.

yapılandırılmış

Having structure; organized.

yapılandırmak

(transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

yapılmış

(of hair) Fixed in a certain style.

yapım

The process of constructing.

yapımcı

Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.

yapısal

Having structure; organized.

yapışık

Having cohesion.

yapışıklık

(medicine) An abnormal union of surface by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

yapışkan

Having cohesion.

yapışma

The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.

yapışmak

(transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.

yapıştırıcı

A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

yapıştırmak

(transitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

yapıt

(uncountable) Artwork.

yapma

The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.

yapmacık

Not natural or normal: imposed arbitrarily or without regard to the specifics or normal circumstances of a person, a situation, etc.

yapmak

(intransitive) To emit one or more bleeps.

yaprak biti

A sap-sucking insect pest of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.

yaprak döken

(botany) Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.

yaprak dökmeyen

Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.

yaprakçıl

(biology) A herbivore that eats mostly foliage.

yapraklanmak

To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.

yapraklarını döken

(botany) Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.

yaptırım

(mostly, in the plural) A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.

yar

A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.

yara

A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.

yara izi

A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.

Yaradan

(religion) A god who created the Universe; God.

yaradancılık

(philosophy) A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural phenomena or specific religious doctrines.

yarak

An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.

yaraklı

Capable of being used.

yaralamak

(transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

yaralanabilirlik

(uncountable) The state of being vulnerable; susceptibility to attack or injury, either physical or emotional; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.