Wiktionary:Requested entries (Turkish)

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 * About Turkish

a, A

 * , "Yaman bir atansın sen, atanların en güçlüsü!"
 * One source says it's a castrated camel but the camel in question in the novel is clearly not castrated.
 * - see 🇨🇬
 * Literally, "Haman's ears", unclear which sense. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:20, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * - Akrotiri in Cyprus

b, B

 * - Turkish co-working office
 * - black conical cap on the end of the Turkish ney

c, C

 * — See tr:cemaziyelahir and (both lowercase-initial, for some reason). From 🇨🇬.
 * - misspelling of cenabet
 * - a plucked lute

ç, Ç

 * - supposed to be "some kind of small river boat", derived from ?
 * R:tr:OTK has.
 * - translation and/or transliteration
 * - translation and/or transliteration

d, D

 * (there's an entry as dört, was it meant?)

f, F

 * - see tr:fırfılak
 * - see tr:fırfılak

g, G

 * -- seems to be idiomatic
 * -- surname now, formerly a girl's name? Google translate sometimes says "Rosebud"; is that correct?

h, H

 * (needs Turkish)
 * Another name for WW1

j, J

 * - jasper?

k, K

 * — a Turkish musical instrument
 * — a place
 * - Google translates "for sure" seems like an alternative spelling of ?
 * - oak gall.
 * - oak gall.

m, M

 * "earring" (perhaps only in Ottoman Turkish)
 * - a double reed pipe similar to the duduk
 * mıskal - panpipe
 * - national?
 * - harbor poroise

o, O

 * - online betting
 * - mentioned several times in the Wikipedia article "Sarayönü Square"

p, P

 * -- probably has a specific legal meaning; in traffic law distinct from and

ş, Ş

 * şahrûd - a large Turkish lute used during the Ottoman period
 * şahrud - a large Turkish lute used during the Ottoman period (spelling without circumflex)
 * şelpe
 * şeşhâne - a type of kopuz (lute)

t, T

 * - the dolphin Delphinus delphis

ü, Ü

 * - a string instrument
 * — Literally, ‘it’s already morning in Üsküdar’... meaning "what, you didn't know? Everyone else already knows about it."
 * - 'something like “cream” (stuff that floats on milk)' per tea room discussion

z, Z

 * and from .  In Ottoman dictionaries with the Arabic meanings.  Unclear to me what meanings survived past the Ottoman era or to the present day and what the difference is between the two forms.  Sample use, quoting the Western reaction to Japanese attacks in December, 1941: "Japonya nihayet ilk zarbeyi indirmiştir."
 * zeze: "My Turkish Cypriot friends told me about the 'Zezes'. These were the well-off students from Turkey studying in Cyprus whose car license plates began with the letters ZZ for 'temporary residents'." Found in Papadakis, Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide.
 * Also in R:tr:OTK as a dialectal synonym of.
 * zıpçi - supposedly means "whistle"
 * In R:tr:OTK as dialectal form defined as.