Turkish–English dictionary

kazı makinesi

A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.Excavator

kazı-kazan

(uncountable) A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.

kazıbilim

The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains.

kazıcı yükleyici

(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia) Ellipsis of backhoe loader: A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component).

kazık

A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

kazıklı humma

(pathology, usually, uncountable) A serious and often fatal disease caused by the infection of an open wound with the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani, found in soil and the intestines and faeces of animals.

kazımak

(transitive) To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.

kazma

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

kazmaç

A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.Excavator

kazmak

(transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.

KDV

(taxation) Initialism of value added tax.

ke

The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.

kebap

(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

Kebek

The capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada.

keçe

A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.

keçi

(uncountable) The meat of the aforementioned animal.

keçi sakal

A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.

keçi sakalı

A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.

keçi yemişi

Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.

keder

A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

kederli

Sad and dispirited.

kedi

A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8th c.]

kedi balığı

The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.

kedi gibi

catlike (resembling a cat); sleek, graceful, inscrutable, sensual, and/or cunning.

kedi nanesi

Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.

kedi otu

(uncountable) The root of Valeriana officinalis, used in herbal medicine.

kedi yavrusu

A young cat, especially before sexual maturity (reached at about seven months).

kedicik

A young cat, especially before sexual maturity (reached at about seven months).

kedidili

A small sponge cake, shaped approximately like a finger.

kefal

Any of various edible fish, of the family Mugilidae, found worldwide in coastal waters and rivers.

kefalet

(countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

kefaletle serbest bırakma

A rescue, especially a financial rescue.

kefaret

(theology, often with capitalized initial) The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.

kefen

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

kefenci

One who robs graves or tombs in order to sell the contents for profit.

kefil

(colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.

kefil olmak

To secure against loss or damage; to insure.

kefne

(sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.

kehanet

A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.

kehribar

A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. [from 15th c.]

kehribar rengi

A yellow-orange colour.

kek

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

kekelemek

(transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.

kekik

The leaves of these plants used in flavouring food.

keklemek

To swindle, deceive, or trick.

keklik

(ornithology) Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris.

keko

(UK, MLE, Ireland, derogatory, offensive ) A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.

kekre

(wine) High or too high in acidity.

kel

Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.

kelebek

A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]

kelem

An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

kelepçe

A fastening consisting of two metal rings, designed to go around a person's wrists, and connected by a chain or hinge.

kelepçelemek

(transitive) To apply handcuffs to someone.

kelepir

(slang, figurative) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.

kelime

(semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)

kelime oyunu

(rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

kelimesi kelimesine

Verbatim; using exactly the given words.

kelle

(slang) A person's head.

kelle avcısı

(anthropology) A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them.

kellesini uçurmak

(transitive) To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.

kellik

The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.

Kelt

(historical) A member of one of the ancient peoples of Western Europe called Celtae by the Romans.

kelvin

In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; 1⁄273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water.

kem

Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.

kemâle ermek

(intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.

keman

(string instrument) A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.

kemancı

A person who plays the violin.

kemankeş

One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.

kement

A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.

kemer

A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.

kemer avlu

A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:

kemer yüksekliği

(countable) The clearance beneath an object, such as an arch, ceiling or bridge; headroom.

kemik

A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

kemik erimesi

(pathology) A disease, occurring especially in women following menopause, in which the bones become extremely porous and are subject to fracture.

kemiksiz

(US, humorous) Without pizza crust; without pizza bones

kemirgen

A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down by gnawing.

kemirici

A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down by gnawing.

kemirmek

(ambitransitive) To bite something persistently, especially something tough.

kemosentez

the production of carbohydrates and other compounds from simple compounds such as carbon dioxide, using the oxidation of chemical nutrients as a source of energy rather than sunlight; it is limited to certain bacteria and fungi

kenar

The outer edge of something.

kenar mahalle

An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.

kendi

An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).

kendi kendine konuşma

(drama) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.

kendiliğinden

Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

kendim

Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described. [from 10th c.]

kendin

(reflexive pronoun) Your own self (singular).

kendinden geçme

Intense pleasure.

kendinden geçmiş

Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.

kendine itimat

Self-assurance.

kendini beğenmiş

Arrogant, having an exaggerated perception of one's positive qualities.

kendini hazırlamak

(transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.

kendir

A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.

kene

A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

kenef

(India, otherwise, _, military) Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.

kenetlemek

To join two moving items.

kenevir

A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.

kenger

Any of species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke.

Kent

A maritime county in southeast England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.

kent merkezi

(chiefly, US, Canada) The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.

kentaur

(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.

kentauroi

(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.

kentilyon

(US, modern British and Australian, short scale) A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.

kentsel

Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.

kentsoylu

(usually, pejorative) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.

Kenya

A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.

Kenyalı

A person from Kenya or of Kenyan descent.

kepaze

Deserving derision.

kepazelik

Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.

kepçe

A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.

kepek

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

keratin

(protein) The protein of which hair and nails are composed.

kere

(countable) An instance or occurrence.

kereste

(North America) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. [from 17th c.]

kerestelik

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

kerevit

Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.

kerhane

A house of prostitution.

keriz

(colloquial, pejorative) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.

kerizlemek

To swindle, deceive, or trick.

kermen

A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.

kerosen

A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel, heavier than gasoline/petrol or naphtha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas.

kerpeten

A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.

kerşene

(linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.

kertenkele

(chiefly, in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

kertme

A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).

keruv

(biblical) A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.

kervan

A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.

kese

(zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.

keseli hayvan

Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.

keseli sıçan

Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae in the order Didelphimorphia.

keşfedilebilir

That which can be detected, noticeable.

keşfetmek

(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

keşif

The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.

kesik

(participial adjective) Having been cut.

kesilme

An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.

kesilmek

(transitive, US, regional, Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).

kesilmiş süt suyu

The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese.

kesim

The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.

kesimevi

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.]

kesimhane

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.]

kesin

Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

kesinlikle

Yes, certainly; expression indicating strong agreement.

kesinti

An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.

kesintisiz

Without stopping; without interruption or break

kesir

(arithmetic) A ratio of two numbers (numerator and denominator), usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar called the vinculum or, alternatively, in sequence on the same line and separated by a solidus (diagonal bar).

keşiş

A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.

keşişhane

A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.

kesişim

A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.

kesişme

The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.

kesişmek

(intransitive) To come together; to meet.

kesit

A section formed by a plane cutting through an object, usually at right angles to an axis.