Turkish–English dictionary

yersiz

Improper; unfit; unsuitable.

Yeruşalim

A city in the Holy Land between the Mediterranean Sea and Dead Sea, holy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; the claimed capital city of both Israel and Palestine.

yeryüzü

(with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.

yeşil

Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.

yeşil karnabahar

A plant, Brassica oleracea var. italica, of the cabbage family, Brassicaceae; especially, the tree-shaped flower and stalk that are eaten as a vegetable.

yeşilbaş

(countable) Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

yeşilci

(politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

yeşillik

(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.

yeşiva

(schools, Judaism) An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.

yetenek

Capability; the ability to perform some task.

yetenekli

Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.

yetenekli olma

The condition of being suitable.

yeteneksiz

Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.

yeteneksizlik

Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.

yeter derecede

Sufficiently.

yeter sayı

The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority.

yeter!

Stop! Don't do that any more!

yeteri kadar

Sufficiently.

yeterince

Sufficiently.

yeterli

Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

yeterli olmak

(ambitransitive) To suffice.

yeterlik

The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs.

yeterlilik

Ability, skill, competence.

yetersiz

Not adequate; lacking in quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose.

yetersiz beslenme

A lack of adequate nourishment.

yetersiz çevirme

The condition in which the front wheels of a car fail to follow the desired curve while cornering, instead following more of a straight-line trajectory, losing a degree of traction, and so slipping off the required line.

yetersiz çevirmek

The action of a car when it does not follow the desired curve while cornering. Tyre slip of the front wheels.

yeti

(cryptozoology, folklore) An individual creature of this type.

yetim

Without a (living) father.

yetimhane

A residential institution for the care and protection of orphans.

yetişilir

Within easy reach; accessible

yetişkin

Fully grown.

yetişkin bezi

(North America, Philippines, India) An absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent or wets the bed, out of convenience, or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy.

yetişkinlik

The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.

yetiştiren

Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.

yetiştirmek

(transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.

yetki

(uncountable) Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right.

yetkilendirilmiş

Authorized with a warrant.

yetkilendirmek

To give power or authority (to do something).

yetkili

(countable) A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.

yetkililer

(uncountable) Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right.

yetkin

Without interruption; coherent

yetkinlik

(countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task or skill.

yetmek

(ambitransitive) To be enough (for)

yetmiş

The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

yevmiye

(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

Yidiş

Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.

yiğit

(informal, intransitive) To act as a hero (brave person; role model; or protagonist).

yiğitlik

(usually, uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.

yihhu

Used to express excitement or joy.

yilbik

(pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.

yine

Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion. [from 16thc.]

yine de

(conjunctive) Regardless; anyhow. [from 19th c.]

yinelemek

(with (that + indicative), or, intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.

yinelenen

Appearing or recurring again and again; recurrent.

yirmi

The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.

yirmilik

(colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.

yirminci

The ordinal form of the number twenty.

yitirmek

(transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.

yitmek

(transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).

yiv

A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

yiyecek

(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

yiyici

A person or animal who eats.

yığın

A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

yığın mesaj

(uncountable, rarely, countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

yığınsal

(medicine) Affecting a large portion of the body, or severe.

yığmak

(transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.

yıkama

A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.

yıkamak

(transitive, Commonwealth) To wash a person or animal in a bath.

yıkanmak

(intransitive) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.

yıkıcı

Causing destruction; damaging.

yıkık

In a state of ruin; dilapidated.

yıkılma

The act of overthrowing a government or a ruler; dethronement.

yıkılmak

(intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.

yıkım

(countable) A cause of misery or ruin.

yıkıntı

The ruins of a broken-down structure.

yıkma

The act of destroying.

yıkmak

(archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.

yıl dönümü

A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.

yılan

(now, literary) A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.

yılan balığı

Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.

yılan derisi

The skin of a snake

yılan kavı

The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

yılan taşı

(mineralogy) Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin.

yılankavi

Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.

yıldırıcı

A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.

yıldırıcılık

(historical) The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.

yıldırım

A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.

yıldırım savaşı

A fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support.

yıldırmak

(transitive) To make timid or afraid; to cause to feel fear or nervousness; to deter, especially by threats of violence.

yıldız

Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol.

yıldız çiçeği

Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

yıldız falcısı

One who studies or practices astrology.

yıldız imi

Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol.

yıldız işareti

Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol.

yıldızımsı

Resembling or shaped like a star.

yıldızlı

Having stars visible.

yıldızlık

The status or position of a performer acknowledged to be a star; fame; celebrity.

yıldızpatı

Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.

yılkı

A small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west.

yıllık

Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.

yılmaz

Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.

yıpranma

Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.

yıpranmış

(figurative) Beset by trouble or difficulty.

yıpratma

Grinding down or wearing away by friction.

yırtık pırtık

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

yırtılmak

(intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.

yırtmaç

A slit in the seam of a garment.

yırtmak

(transitive, archaic, _, except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.

YKB

(countable, business) Initialism of chief executive officer.

yo

(informal, commonly, emphatic) No.

yobaz

One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.

yoga

Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind.

yoğaltmak

(transitive) To destroy completely.

yogi

(yoga) A devotee or adherent of yoga. [from 17th c.]

yoğun

Having relatively high density.

yoğun olmak

(figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.

yoğunlaşmak

To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.

yoğunlaştırmak

(ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

yoğunluk

The quality of being intense.

yoğurma hareketi yapmak

(transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.

yoğurmak

(transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.

yoğurt

A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.

yoğurt çiçeği

A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals

yoğuşmak

(transitive) To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.

yok

not available

yok etme

The act of destroying.

yok etmek

To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.

yok olmak

(intransitive) To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.

yok sayılabilir

Insignificant or trivial enough to be ignored.

yokçuluk

(countable, uncountable, philosophy) A doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life; in particular, the view that nothing in the world actually exists.

yoklamak

To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.

yokluk

A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship

yoksa

(conjunctive) In different circumstances; or else.

yoksul

In need; poor.

yoksullaşmak

(intransitive) To become poor.

yoksullaştırmak

(transitive) To make poor.

yoksulluk

Extreme poverty or destitution.

yoksun

Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of.

yoksun bırakma

(transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

yoksun olmak

(transitive, stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.

yoksunluk

A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.

yokuş

An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.

yol

A type of public roadway.

yol açmak

(transitive) To set off an event or action; to bring about; to produce.

yol alma

(nautical) Forward motion, or its rate.

yol ayrımı

(figuratively, by analogy) A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.

yol gösterme

Advice or counselling on some topic.

yol göstermek

(obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.

yol şeridi

The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.