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yeşil.

green

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/jeˈʃil//jaˈʃɯɫ/

  1. green

    uncountable

  2. the green light in traffic lights

    uncountable
    yeşil yanınca geçecekler

  3. a green-headed wild duck

    Muğla · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یشیل (yeşil), from Old Anatolian Turkish یاشل (yaşıl), from Proto-Turkic *yāĺïl (“green”). cognates Cognate with Azerbaijani yaşıl, Gagauz eşil, Bashkir йәшел (yäşel), Chuvash ҫулҫӑ (śulś̬ă), Kazakh жасыл (jasıl), Kyrgyz жашыл (jaşıl), Turkmen ýaşyl, Uyghur يېشىل (yëshil), Uzbek yashil and Yakut саһыл (sahïl)

adj/jeˈʃil//jaˈʃɯɫ/

  1. green

    Yeşil çim

  2. undried, fresh (vegetable or fruit)

  3. unripe (vegetable or fruit)

  4. young, fresh

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یشیل (yeşil), from Old Anatolian Turkish یاشل (yaşıl), from Proto-Turkic *yāĺïl (“green”). cognates Cognate with Azerbaijani yaşıl, Gagauz eşil, Bashkir йәшел (yäşel), Chuvash ҫулҫӑ (śulś̬ă), Kazakh жасыл (jasıl), Kyrgyz жашыл (jaşıl), Turkmen ýaşyl, Uyghur يېشىل (yëshil), Uzbek yashil and Yakut саһыл (sahïl)

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