uçak
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Turkish
Etymology
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
Noun
uçak (definite accusative uçağı, plural uçaklar)
Declension
| 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
- tayyare (obsolete)
References
- ^ Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 107
Further reading
uçak on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia tr
