Category:Turkish terms by usage

Turkish terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Turkish archaic terms: Turkish terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Turkish childish terms: Turkish terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Turkish colloquialisms: Turkish terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Turkish dated terms: Turkish terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Turkish derogatory terms: Turkish terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Turkish dialectal terms: Turkish terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Turkish endearing terms: Turkish terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Turkish formal terms: Turkish terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Turkish higher register terms: Turkish terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Turkish historical terms: Turkish terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
• Category:Turkish humorous terms: Turkish terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Turkish informal terms: Turkish terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Turkish nonstandard terms: Turkish terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Turkish obsolete terms: Turkish terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Turkish offensive terms: Turkish terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Turkish placeholder terms: Turkish terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
• Category:Turkish poetic terms: Turkish terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Turkish proscribed terms: Turkish terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Turkish rustic terms: Turkish terms whose use is typically restricted rural speech.
• Category:Turkish short forms: Turkish terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Turkish slang: Turkish colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Turkish superseded forms: Turkish forms that have been superseded by other forms due to changes in spelling conventions.
• Category:Turkish technical terms: Turkish terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
• Category:Turkish terms of address: Turkish terms used to refer to another person.
• Category:Turkish terms with archaic senses: Turkish terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Turkish terms with historical senses: Turkish terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Turkish terms with obsolete senses: Turkish terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Turkish terms with rare senses: Turkish rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Turkish terms with uncommon senses: Turkish uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:Turkish trademarks: Turkish terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Turkish uncommon terms: Turkish uncommonly used terms.
• Category:Turkish vulgarities: Turkish terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.