Turkish–English dictionary

oyuk

A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.

oyuklu

(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

oyulmuş

Well shaped, as a good sculpture is.

oyun

(countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.

oyun alanı

(outdoors) A large open space for children to play in, usually having dedicated play equipment (such as swings and slides). [1780]

oyun kurucu

(basketball) A guard who is usually the shortest of the five basketball positions, and specializes in handling the ball, distributing it to the other players and generally running the team's offense.

oyun odası

A room, allocated as a children's play area, in which noisy or boisterous activities are tolerated.

oyun sahası

(outdoors) A large open space for children to play in, usually having dedicated play equipment (such as swings and slides). [1780]

oyunbaz

One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.

oyunbozan

Like a spoilsport.

oyuncak

(idiomatic) A person being manipulated by another, being used to some end.

oyuncak bebek

A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.

oyuncu

A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.]

oyunculuk

(uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor.

öz

The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.

öz güven

Self-assurance.

öz saygı

Confidence in one's own worth; self-respect.

öz su

The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.

ozalit kopya

A print produced with this process.

ozan

A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

Özbekistan

A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Uzbekistan. Capital: Tashkent.

özçekim

(informal, mobile phones) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.

özdeyiş

A concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.

özek

(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).

özel

Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals

özel makale

(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

özelleştirme

The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.

özelleştirmek

(economics) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.

özellik

(countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; nature; phene.

özellik taşımak

(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

özellikle

(focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.

özellikli

displayed with special treatment

özen

(uncountable) Mental focus.

özenle

With care; attentively, circumspectly.

özenle kullanmak

(transitive) To conserve.

özenli

Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

özenti

(informal, derogatory, often, attributive) Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.

özerklik

(government, countable) A self-governing country or region.

özet

The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.

özetçe

An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

özetlemek

(ambitransitive) To prepare a summary of (something).

özezerlik

The (often sexual) enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation.

özgeci

Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.

özgecil

Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish

özgerinç

(physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.

özgeriş

(physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.

özgünlük

(uncountable) The capacity to think independently or be inventive.

özgür

Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.

özgür kılmak

(transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.). [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

özgürleştirme

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

özgürlük

(countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.

özgüven

Self-confidence; poise; composure.

özkıyım

(countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.

özlem

An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.

özlemek

(transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.

özlü

Brief, yet including all important information.

özlük muhafızı

A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting someone.

özlülük

(uncountable) Succinctness; conciseness.

özne

(grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.

öznel

Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.

öznellik

(singulare tantum) The state of being subjective.

özür

An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).

özür dilerim

Sorry, as an apology.

özürlü

Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.

özveri

(uncountable) The act or state of devoting or being devoted.

özverili

Having, exhibiting or motivated by no concern for oneself but for others; unselfish.

özyaşamöyküsü

(countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

Øresund

The strait that separates Zealand (an island of Denmark) from Scania (part of Sweden); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund.

pabuç

(footwear) A low soft shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom slipper or house slipper.

pabuççu

A person who makes shoes.

paça

A dish made from cattle's or sheep's head and/or trotters and eaten with garlic and/or vinegar.

paçavra

A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.

paçuli

Any of several East Indian plants in the genus Pogostemon, especially Pogostemon cablin, which yield a highly fragrant oil.

padavra

A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.

padişah

(history) A ruler of a Muslim country or state.

padişahlık

A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).

paf küf

(slang, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, Jamaica) A cannabis cigarette.

pafküf

(slang, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, Jamaica) A cannabis cigarette.

pagan

Not adhering to an Abrahamic religion; pagan.

paganizm

Any of a class of religions often associated with nature rituals.

paganlık

Any of a class of religions often associated with nature rituals.

pagoda

A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. [from 16th c.]

PAH

(organic chemistry) Initialism of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.

paha

The cost required to gain possession of something.

paha biçilemez

(by, extension) So precious as not to be obtainable or sold at any price. [from 1590s]

pahalı

Having a high price or cost.

paj

(historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.

paket

(countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.

paketlemek

(transitive) To wrap into a bale.

paketlenmiş

Having been placed in a package.

paketli

Having been placed in a package.

Pakistan

A country in South Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Capital: Islamabad.

Pakistanlı

Of, from, or pertaining to Pakistan, or its people.

paklık

(Christianity) A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and archangels, and below seraphim and cherubim. [from 14th c.]

pakt

(international law) An agreement between two or more nations

pala

A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.

palamut

Sarda sarda, of the shallower waters of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea.

palanga

A system in which a rope, cable, or chain (the tackle) is passed over pulleys enclosed in two (or rarely more) blocks, one fixed and one attached to a load, which is used to gain mechanical advantage to lift or pull heavy loads.

palas

A large and lavishly ornate residence.

Palau

A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Palau. Capital: Ngerulmud.

palavra

Empty verbiage or nonsense. [from early 19th c.]

palavracı

A liar; a fibber.

Palermo

A metropolitan city in Sicily, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Palermo.

palet

A generic trademark name for a continuous track in the form of a steel or rubber belt fitted around the wheels of crawlers, bulldozers, excavators, loaders, backhoes, tanks and similar off-road vehicles in such a manner as to spread the load on the ground surface and thereby improve traction and reduce sinking into soft surfaces.

paletli

A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.

palindrom

A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.

palladyum

A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.

palto

(countable, clothing) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.

palyatif

(medicine) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.

pamidor

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

Pan

(Greek god) Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.

Panama

A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Panama.

panaroma

A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.

pancar

(usually, uncountable) The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.

pandantif

A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]

pandemi

(epidemiology) Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.

Pandora

(Greek mythology) The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.

pandül

(clocks, mechanics) A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.

panel

A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.

panenteizm

(philosophy, religion) A doctrine that the universe subsists within God, but that God nevertheless transcends or has some existence separate from the universe.

pangolin

Any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the family Manidae within the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia.

paniğe kapılmak

To cause (someone) to feel panic; also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.

panik

(uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.

panik olmak

To cause (someone) to feel panic; also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.

panik yapmak

To cause (someone) to feel panic; also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.

paniklemek

To cause (someone) to feel panic; also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.

pankart

A large piece of cloth with a slogan, motto, or emblem carried in a demonstration or other procession or suspended in some conspicuous place.

pankreas

(anatomy) A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to assist with food digestion.

pano

A board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space.

Panorama

A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene.

pansuman

A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.

panteizm

(religion) The belief that the Universe is in some sense divine and should be revered. Pantheism identifies the universe with God but denies any personality or transcendence of such a God.

panter

Any of various big cats with black fur; most especially, the black-coated leopard of Africa and Asia.

pantolon

(chiefly, North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Philippines) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. [from 19th c.]

pantomim

The act of gesturing without speaking; a dumb-show, a mime. [from 18th c.]

papağan

A kind of bird, many species of which are colorful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.

papağan yemi

A cultivated thistle-like plant, Carthamus tinctorius, family Asteraceae, now grown mainly for its oil.

papağanlamak

(transitive) To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in the manner of a parrot.

paparazi

A freelance photographer who sells photographs of celebrities to the media, especially one who pursues celebrities and attempts to obtain candid photographs.

papatya

Any of several other similar plants. (See below)

papaz

(card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.

papaz evi

A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.

papaz külahı

Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.

paprika

A bright reddish orange colour resembling that of the ground spice.

para

Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.

para basımevi

A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.

para basmak

To mint money.

para biriktirmek

(transitive, gambling, slang, archaic) To make an agreement to give (some amount of money) to a fellow gambler if one wins, and to receive that amount from them if they win, as a form of hedging.

para birimi

Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.

para çekmek

(banking, finance) To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.