Turkish–English dictionary

kız kardeş

A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informally) a nun.

kız torun

The daughter of someone's child.

kızak

A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

kızak için uygun yokuş

The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. [from 14th c.]

kızakla yokuştan kayma

The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. [from 14th c.]

kızanak

A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.

kızarmak

An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.

kızartmak

(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.

kızböceği

An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera, having four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body when perched.

kızdırmak

(transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

kızgın

Displaying or feeling anger.

kızgınlık

A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to yell, say curse words, and/or physically harm or cause damage or destruction to things or attack or assault living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, or unfair or unjust treatment, or a situation not going the way one had desired or planned.

kızıksınmak

(transitive, intransitive) To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to query in the mind.

kızıl

(of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.

Kızıl Gezegen

(astronomy) The fourth planet in the solar system. Symbol: ♂

kızılağaç

Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.

kızılaltı

Having a wavelength in the infrared spectrum.

kızılca

Somewhat red.

Kızılderili

(countable) An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, and Yupik). [from 16th c.]

Kızıldız

(astronomy) The fourth planet in the solar system. Symbol: ♂

kızılgerdan

A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.

kızılkanat

The common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus), a freshwater fish. [from 17th c.]

kızılkök

A dye made from the plant.

kızılötesi

Having a wavelength in the infrared spectrum.

kızışma

(zoology) Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season. [from early 15th c.]

kızışmak

(intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.

kızlık

(metonym, uncountable) Virginity.

kızlık bozmak

(transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

kızlık soyadı

The original last name of a person, usually a woman, who has changed their last name upon marriage.

kızlık zarı

(anatomy) A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females.

kızma birader

A children's board game in which tokens are moved around a board.

kızmak

(intransitive) To become angry.

kızsı

Like (that of) a girl; feminine.

klakson

(countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.

klamidya

(uncountable) Any of several common, often asymptomatic, sexually transmitted diseases caused by the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis.

klapa

Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between.

klarnet

(woodwind instrument) A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).

klasik

Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined

klasör

A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.

klauztrofobik

(psychology) Suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.

klauztrofobiya

(psychology) Suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.

klavsen

(musical instruments) A musical instrument with a keyboard that produces sound through a mechanical process. When the performer presses a key, a corresponding plectrum plucks a tuned string. The harpsichord originated in late medieval Europe and is one of the most important instruments used to perform Baroque music.

klemantin

A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (Citrus × aurantium f. deliciosa) and a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientific name: Citrus × clementina.

Kleopatra

A given name of women in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt; notably Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BCE); last of the Ptolemy line.

kleptokrasi

A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by theft and greed.

klik

A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.

Klingon

(countable) A member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe with distinctive forehead ridges and a culture based on the strict observance of honor, loyalty, and combat.

Klingonca

An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

klinik

A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

klişe

(rhetoric) Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude. [from 19th c.]

klitoris

(anatomy) A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals. [from 17th c.]

klon

A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.

klonlamak

(transitive) To create a clone of.

klor

A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.

klorat

(chemistry) Any salt of chloric acid.

klorofil

(biochemistry) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.

kloroform

(organic compound) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.

klorür

(chemistry) Any salt of hydrochloric acid.

klostrofobi

The fear of closed, tight places.

klozet

A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.

Kmer

A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.

knot

A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.

koala

A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

koalisyon

A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

kobalt

A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.

kobra

Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.

koç

(computing) The symbol @, used in e-mail addresses to separate the user name from the domain name.

koca

A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.

Kocaayak

(cryptozoology, folklore) A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.

kocaman

Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.

koçan

The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.

kociş

(informal, endearing) Husband.

kodak

A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

kodein

(pharmaceutical drug) An addictive alkaloid narcotic derived from opium and used as a hypnotic, analgesic and antitussive; often mixed with aspirin etc.

kodeks

A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.

kodlamak

(intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. [from 16th c.]

köfte

Any of various spicy meatball or meatloaf dishes of the Middle East, Caucasus, South Asia, and the Balkans.

Koguryo

(historical) An ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 37 BCE to 668 CE; at its maximum covering all of North Korea, the northern part of South Korea, parts of Manchuria in northeast China, and parts of Primorsky Krai in Russia.

koğuş

A section or subdivision of a prison.

koherent

(physics, of waves) The property of having the same wavelength and phase.

kohezyon

(physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.

kohumbazlık

The favoring of relatives (most strictly) or also personal friends (more broadly) because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities.

kohumluk

Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.

kök

(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.

kök salmak

To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

koka

The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

koka ağacı

The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

kokain

(uncountable, organic compound, pharmaceutical drug) An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.

kokarca

Mustela putorius, related to mink and weasels, native to Europe and parts of Asia, and from which certain of the animals called ferrets have been domesticated.

kökçan

(countable) A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.

köken

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

köken bilgisi

(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

köken bilimi

(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

kökenine inmek

(transitive) To trace (a line, etc. in drawing) again.

kökensel

First, earliest or original.

koket

Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.

koklama

A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

koklamak

(transitive) To sense a smell or smells.

köklemek

(transitive) To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the highest possible speed.

köklendirmek

To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

köklenmek

To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

köklü

(literally, botany) Of a plant, having deep roots; (of a non-living object) deeply and firmly embedded (in the ground, etc.).

kokmak

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, slang) To stink, to smell bad.

kokmuş

Foul-smelling, stinking.

köknar

(chiefly, countable) A conifer of the genus Abies.

kokot

A sexually immoral woman.

kokpit

The compartment in an aircraft or spacecraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled. [from 20th c.]

köksüz

Without any grounds to support it; baseless.

köktenci

One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.

köktencilik

(religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.

köktendincilik

(religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.

kökteş

(linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.

koku

A pleasant smell or odour.

koku almak

(transitive) To sense a smell or smells.

kökünü kurutmak

(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.

kökünü kurutmak

(transitive) To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.

kokuşmuş

Foul-smelling, stinking.

kokuşuk

Foul-smelling, stinking.

kokusuz

Having no odor.

kol

A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.

kol askısı

A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.

kol çekmek

(transitive) To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it. [from 15th c.]

kol kemiği

(anatomy) The bone of the upper arm.

kola

A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.

kolaj

A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.

kolan

A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.

kolan balığı

Any marine or freshwater fish of the family Acipenseridae that are prized for their roe and are endemic to temperate seas and rivers of the northern hemisphere, especially central Eurasia.

kolay

Requiring little skill or effort.

kolay anlaşılan

(art, literature) Easily understood or appreciated. [from 1961]

kolayca

Without difficulty.

kolayca anlaşılır

(art, literature) Easily understood or appreciated. [from 1961]

kolaylaştırmak

To make easy or easier.

kolaylıkla

Without difficulty.

kolbasa

A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.

kolçak

(historical) An item of plate armor that protects the arm.

koldaş

A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.

köle

An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers.

kolej

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) A high school or secondary school.

koleksiyon

(set theory, topology, analysis) A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.

kölelik

The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.

kolera

(pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.

kolesterol

(biochemistry) A sterol lipid synthesized by the liver and transported in the bloodstream to the membranes of all animal cells; it plays a central role in many biochemical processes and, as a lipoprotein that coats the walls of blood vessels, is associated with cardiovascular disease.

Kolezyum

The largest stadium in the Roman empire, located near the center of Rome.

koli

A package wrapped for shipment.

kolik

(pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).

kolloit

(physical chemistry) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.

Köln

The largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the Rhine River.

kolofan

(organic chemistry) A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components.

Kolombiya

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Colombia. Capital: Bogotá.

Kolombiyalı

A native or inhabitant of Colombia.