Turkish–English dictionary

kum taşı

A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.

kum torbası

A tough bag, usually cylindrical, filled with air, sand, or other material, often suspended so that it swings freely, which is punched or kicked when practising sports such as boxing or martial arts.

kumanda

Ellipsis of remote control.

kumanda etmek

(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.

kumandan

One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.

kumanya

(often, figurative) Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey.

kumar

A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain.

kumarbaz

One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.

kumarcı

One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.

kumarhane

A public building or room for gambling.

kumaş

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

kumbaşı

A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.

kümbet

(architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.

küme

(set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.

kümekent

A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a normal metropolis.

kümes

A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.

kümes hayvanı

A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.

kümes hayvanları

The meat from a domestic fowl.

kumla

A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.

kumluk

A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.

kumpas

(loosely) An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring.

kumral

Of a reddish-brown colour.

kumru

(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.

kumsal

A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.

kumsu

resembling sand

kumul

(geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water.

kümülatif

Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.

küncü

The seed of this plant.

kundak

(firearm) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.

kundakçı

One who has committed the act of arson, or illegally setting fire to property.

kundakçılık

The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.

kundaklama

The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.

kundura

(footwear) A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.

kunduz

(countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.

kunt

(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.

kunu

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

künye

(by extension, informal) The identification tag worn around the neck by military personnel.

küp

(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

küp şeklinde doğramak

(transitive) To cut into small cubes.

kupa

(card games) A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.

küpe

A piece of jewelry worn on the ear.

küpe çiçeği

A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.

küpeşte

The handrail on the side of a staircase.

küplü

A person who is addicted to alcohol.

kupon

A piece of paper or other token that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.

küpü

(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

küpünü almak

(transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

kür

A method, device or medication that restores good health.

kur yapmak

(transitive) To woo; to court.

kura

The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.

kurak

Very dry.

kuraklık

A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.

kural

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

kuramsal

Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural

küratör

A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.

kurbağa

Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.

kurban

An offering to God, especially in fulfilment of a vow.

kurbanlık

A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see sense 1.3), offered to a deity.

kurçak

A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.

kürdan

A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.

kurdele

A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.

Kürdistan

A cultural region in West Asia inhabited mostly by the Kurds, encompassing parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.

küre

(mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.

kürek

A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

kürek çekmek

(transitive, or, intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.

kürekle atmak

(transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.

küremek

(transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.

küresel

Concerning all parts of the world.

küreselci

Of or pertaining to globalism.

küreselleşme

The process of becoming a more interconnected world.

kurgu

(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

kurgulamak

(intransitive, transitive) To portray in the mind, using fantasy.

kürk

(uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.

kürklü

(of an animal) Having a lot of fur.

kurluk

A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

kurmak

(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

kurnaz

Skillful at deceiving others.

kurnazlık

The quality of being astute.

kursak

The crop of a bird.

kursiyer

Someone who is still in the process of being formally trained in a workplace.

Kursk

A city in Kursk Oblast, the administrative centre of Kursky Raion and Kursk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1032, scene in 1943 of the largest battle in human history.

kürsü

A dais, pulpit, or similar platform for a speaker, conductor, or other performer.

kurşun

(literary, or, dated) Made of lead.

kurşun geçirmez

(of a material) Capable of withstanding a direct shot by a bullet fired from a gun.

kurşun kalem

A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. [from 16th c.]

Kürt

A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.

kurt adam

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.

kurtarıcı

A person who rescues someone or something.

kurtarma

(underwater diving) A backup supply of air in scuba diving.

kurtarmak

To save from any violence, danger or evil.

kurtbağrı

Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum.

Kürtçe

Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.

kurtçuk

(countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.

kurtulmak

(intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something.

kurtuluş

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

kuru

Having had moisture removed; dehydrated, desiccated.

kuru erik

The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.

kuru et

Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.

kuru ot

(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.

kuru yemiş

(food, broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

kurucu

One who builds or constructs things.

kurul

A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

kurul üyesi

(American) A councilman or councilwoman; member of a council.

kurulamak

(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

kurulanma

(uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated

kurultay

A meeting or gathering.

kuruluş

An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]

kurum

A long established and respected organization, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.

kuruma

(uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated

kurumak

(transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree. [from late 16th c.]

kurumsak

Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

kurumsal

Of or relating to a corporation.

kuruntulu

Suffering from delusions; having false or faulty beliefs.

kurutma makinesi

An electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum.

kurutmak

(transitive) To dry by heat.

kurutucu

(most often) Short for clothes dryer, tumble dryer

kuş evi

A small house for birds.

kuş kafesi

(countable) A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.

kuş sürüsü

(collective) A small group of persons, especially of girls and women.

kuş tüyü

Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.

kuş üvezi

Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.

kuş üzümü

A small, sweet, seedless black grape with an intense flavour when dried, from a cultivar of Vitis vinifera the grape vine.

kuş yemi

Seed, usually constituting a mixture from several species of plant, set out as food for birds.

kuşak

(countable, uncommon, possibly, dated) A generation.

kuşatma

(military) A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.

kuşatmak

(transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.

kuşbaşı

Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. corn-beef hash

kuşburnu

The fleshy false fruit of a wild rose plant (e.g. sweetbrier, dog rose, burnet rose, etc.), containing the achenes or true fruits.

kuşçu

Someone who catches or ensnares birds; a fowler.

kuşkonmaz

The young shoots of Asparagus officinalis eaten as a vegetable.

kuşku

(uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.

kuşkucu

Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe. [from 16th c.]

kuşkuculuk

(philosophy) The doctrine that absolute knowledge is not possible.

kuşkulanmak

(ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.

kuşkulu

Expressing suspicion

kuskun

A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.

kuskus

A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.

kuşkusuz

(idiomatic) without question; undoubtedly

küsküt

Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

kuşluk

the part of the day between sunrise and noon.

kusma

(pathology) The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.

kusmak

(intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.

küsmek

(intransitive) To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.

kusmuk

The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.

kuşpalazı

(pathology) A serious infectious disease leading to inflammation of mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

küstah

Defying.

küstahlık

Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.

küstere

Stachys officinalis (syn. Betonica officinalis, an herb used in traditional European medicine.

kusuntu

The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.

kusur

A fault or malfunction.