uçak
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From 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 edit
Noun edit
uçak (definite accusative uçağı, plural uçaklar)
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
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