demir yolu
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Turkish
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Etymology
Compound of demir (“iron”) + yol (“road”) + -u (possessive suffix), inherited from Ottoman Turkish دمیر یولی (demir yolu), a calque of French chemin de fer, whence also the borrowing şimendifer.
Pronunciation
Noun
demir yolu (definite accusative demir yolunu, plural demir yolları)
- (transport) railway, railroad
- Synonym: (obsolete) şimendifer
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | demir yolu | |
| Definite accusative | demir yolunu | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | demir yolu | demir yolları |
| Definite accusative | demir yolunu | demir yollarını |
| Dative | demir yoluna | demir yollarına |
| Locative | demir yolunda | demir yollarında |
| Ablative | demir yolundan | demir yollarından |
| Genitive | demir yolunun | demir yollarının |
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Further reading
- “demir yolu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “demir yolu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1145
Demir yolu on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia tr
