Turkish–English dictionary

yol vermek

To give precedence to other road users.

yola çıkmak

(transitive) To present for consideration; to propose.

yolak

A path that pedestrians or vehicles take informally rather than taking a sidewalk or set route, for example, a well-worn ribbon of dirt cutting across a patch of grass, or a path in the snow.

yolbaşçı

One having authority to direct.

yolbul

(uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.

yolcu

(countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.

yolcu sepeti

A one-wheeled attachment to the side of a motorcycle to allow for a separate seat for a passenger or cargo space.

yolcu uçağı

A passenger-carrying aircraft, especially one of a fleet operated by an airline.

yolculuk

(intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.

yolculuk etmek

To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

yolculuk yolu

A route or proposed route of a journey.

yoldan çıkarmak

(transitive) To deceive or delude (using guile).

yoldan sapmak

(intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

yoldaş

A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies

yollamak

(transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).

yollu

A sexually immoral woman.

yolluk

An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.

yolmak

(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

yolsuz

Not in accordance with the law.

yolsuzluk

Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.

yolun açık olsun

(literary) Used, especially at a parting, to express the wish that the outcome of a person's actions be positive for them; typically said to someone who is about to start a journey or a daring endeavour.

yolun ortası

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

yoluna taş koyulmuş

Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.

yolunu bulmak

To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.

yön

A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).

yonca

(uncountable) A plant, principally of Medicago sativa, grown as a pasture crop.

yöndemci

A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.

yöndün

(countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.

yönel

(nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).

yönelteç

(mostly, in the plural) The bar used to steer a bicycle, motorbike, or similar vehicle using the hands.

yönetici

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

yönetim

(uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.

yönetimsel

Of or relating to administering or administration.

yönetmek

(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.

yönetmen

One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).

yöney

(mathematics, physics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.

yönlendirici

(Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.

yönlendirme

Advice or counselling on some topic.

yönsel

(nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).

yöntem

(countable) A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process).

yontmak

(transitive, US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.

yontu

(countable) A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).

yontucu

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

yontuculuk

(countable) More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.

yontulmuş

Well shaped, as a good sculpture is.

yor

Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.

yordam

(uncountable) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; quickness of motion

yöre

The residential area near one's home.

yörekent

A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.

yöresel

(group theory, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.

yorgan

(British, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada) A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.

yorgun

In need of some rest or sleep.

yorgunluk

A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.

yorguntu

A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness. [from 14th c.]

yormak

(transitive) To make sleepy or weary.

yortmak

(intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.

yortuş

A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.

yorulmadan

In a tireless manner; without tiring, flagging, or ceasing.

yorulmak

(intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.

yorulmak bilmeyen

Indefatigable, untiring and not yielding to fatigue

yorum

A spoken or written remark.

yorumcu

A person who makes a commentary, particularly

yorumlama

(authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing, in nonfiction or in fiction; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe or explain a set of things (such as, in fiction, the setting, characters and other non-plot elements).

yorumlayıcı

(computing) A program that converts commands into machine language in real time rather than compiling it in advance. [1954]

yörünge

(pinball) A path for the ball on the outer edge of the playfield, usually connected so that the ball entering in one end will come out of the other.

yosma

A woman who flirts or plays with people's affections.

YouTube

A video-sharing website.

yoz

In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

yozlak

(uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

yozlaşmak

(transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

yozlaşmış

In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

yozlaştırmak

(transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

yubatmak

(intransitive) To delay, to wait.

yüce

(often, postpositive) Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.

yüceltme

(psychology) The transformation of an impulse into something socially constructive. [from 20th c.]

yudum

A small mouthful of drink

yudumlamak

(transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.

yufka yürekli

Gentle; kind; sympathetic.

yuğ

A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.

Yugoslav

(historical) A native of Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavya

(historical) A former country in Southeast Europe in the Balkans, now split into 6 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.

Yugoslavyalı

(historical) A native of Yugoslavia.

yuh

An exclamation used by a member of an audience, as at a stage play or sporting event, to indicate derision or disapproval.

yük

A heavy load.

yukarı

Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.

yukarı çekmek

(transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).

yukarıda

Above one's head; in the sky.

yukarıdan konuşmak

(transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.

yukarıya

In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface. [first attested before 1150]

yüklem

(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.

yükleyici

A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, tracked loader, wheel loader, etc.

yüksek

Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).

yüksek sesle

With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

yükseklik

The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).

yükseklikölçer

An apparatus for measuring altitude.

yüksekokul

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

yüksekte

In or to an elevated position.

yüksekten

At a pitch of great frequency.

yükselme

The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.

yükselmek

An amount by which a quantity is increased.

yükseltgemek

(chemistry, transitive) To combine with oxygen or otherwise make an oxide.

yükseltgenmek

(intransitive) To become oxidized.

yükseltme

An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.

yükseltmek

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

yüksük

(sewing) A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material.

yüksük otu

Digitalis, a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous biennials native to the Old World, certain of which are prized for their showy flowers. The drug digitalis or digoxin was first isolated from the plant.

yüksüz

Not burdened with worries, cares or responsibilities.

yükümlü

Followed by on or upon: imposed on one as an obligation, especially due to one's office or position.

yükümlülük

A responsibility, onus.

yul bayramı

Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 25th and January 5th).

yulaf

(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

yulaf lapası

A breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, cooked in milk and/or water.

yulaf macunu

(British) A bar made with rolled oats, butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar, baked in a tray.

yular

(equestrian) The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.

yultuz

A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.

yülümek

To cut the hair of (a person).

yumak

A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.

yumru

A protuberance on a level surface.

yumruk

A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.

yumruklamak

To strike with the fist.

yumrukoyunu

(sports) A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.

yumurcak

A cute person or animal.

yumurta

(cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

yumurta akı

The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

yumurta hücresi

(cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

yumurta sarısı

The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.

yumurtalık

A small dish used to support a boiled egg while it is eaten.

yumurtlamak

(transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

yumurtlatmak

A facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish or poultry.

yumuşacık

Light; soft; airy.

yumuşak

(often, derogatory, of a man or boy) Exhibiting behaviour or mannerisms considered typical of a woman; unmasculine.

yumuşak başlı

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

yumuşak kalpli

Gentle; kind; sympathetic.

yumuşamak

(intransitive) To become soft or softer

yumuşatmak

(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.

yunak

A building or area where bathing occurs.

Yunan

Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.

Yunanca

Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.

Yunanistan

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Hellenic Republic. Capital and largest city: Athens.

Yunanistanlı

(countable) A person from Greece or of Greek descent.

yünlü

Made of wool.

yunmak

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

yunu

The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.

yunus

A carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of the infraorder Cetacea, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.

yupi

(informal, sometimes derogatory, dated) A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.

yuppi

Used to express excitement or joy.

yurduna özlemli

(often with for) Missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.

yürek

(anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.

yürek ağrısı

Emotional distress or pain, often caused by a loved one or their absence.

yürek dağlayan

Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing