uçak
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom uçmak (“to fly”). The word was coined during the Turkish language reform and was originally proposed to denote the concept 'airfield, airport'. However, it came to denote 'aircraft' instead, displacing the proposed coinage uçku (“airplane”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
edituçak (definite accusative uçağı, plural uçaklar)
Declension
editInflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | uçak | |
Definite accusative | uçağı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | uçak | uçaklar |
Definite accusative | uçağı | uçakları |
Dative | uçağa | uçaklara |
Locative | uçakta | uçaklarda |
Ablative | uçaktan | uçaklardan |
Genitive | uçağın | uçakların |
Synonyms
edit- tayyare (obsolete)
References
edit- ^ Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 107
Further reading
edit- uçak on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia tr