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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-11-16, 1:16

*Teşekkürler

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby dEhiN » 2018-11-16, 4:32

vijayjohn wrote:*Teşekkürler

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Re: Turkish Study Group

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Lol birşey değil!

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby dEhiN » 2018-11-19, 17:18

dEhiN wrote:I'm thinking (all of a sudden) of re-learning Turkish. Well, more like learning the little bit I had learned once, and continuing. What would you guys recommend to start with?

I've decided to hold off on re-learning Turkish for now. Hopefully sometime next year I can pick it back up.
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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-11-19, 23:19

Sorry to see you go, but I'm sure we'll welcome you back whenever you're ready. :)

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby eskandar » 2018-11-28, 4:58

Just popping in with a couple of questions about stuff you guys covered earlier:

From one of the interview videos (how many languages can you say "I love you" in?), what's the deal with all the people who answered انا محبك - is that actually how you say it in some Syrian dialect or something? I've never heard it before. At first I thought someone meant to say انا بحبك but then so many people repeated it...

The word salatalık came up - how often is this used vs. hıyar? Is one more common, or do they have slightly different meanings?

Also, since y'all were pointing out Arabic origins to words, I thought I'd chime in with some you didn't comment on:

macera - adventure (from Persian ماجرا , from Arabic ما جری 'what happened')

civar - neighborhood (جوار from the verb جار )

tabak - plate, dish (Arabic طبق , which is actually originally from Persian تبوک)

zaten - actually, in fact (ذاتاً)

mevsim - season (موسم)

hafif - light (خفيف)
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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby voron » 2018-11-28, 11:55

eskandar wrote:From one of the interview videos (how many languages can you say "I love you" in?), what's the deal with all the people who answered انا محبك - is that actually how you say it in some Syrian dialect or something? I've never heard it before. At first I thought someone meant to say انا بحبك but then so many people repeated it...

I asked this question to myself too. Technically, مُحِبّ is the active participle of حب, so the phrase makes sense. I don't know why it's the most cited form by the people in the video. Perhaps there was a popular song with this phrase.

The word salatalık came up - how often is this used vs. hıyar? Is one more common, or do they have slightly different meanings?

In the modern language, 'hıyar' is no longer used to mean 'cucumber'. The meaning of hıyar has changed to become pejorative: http://tureng.com/en/turkish-english/h%C4%B1yar
I still hear it used as cucumber in old people's speech.

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-11-28, 13:22

I didn't realize the meaning of hıyar had changed like that. That was the only word I knew for 'cucumber' until I saw salatalık in GLOSS. :o

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby eskandar » 2018-11-28, 16:55

Good to know!
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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby Saim » 2018-11-28, 18:22

I didn't know either word for cucumber. I couldn't even remember how to say cucumber in Hungarian.

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby voron » 2018-11-28, 18:30

vijayjohn wrote:I didn't realize the meaning of hıyar had changed like that. That was the only word I knew for 'cucumber' until I saw salatalık in GLOSS. :o

Which Ottoman books did you guys (Vijay and Eskandar) learn it from? Because all the books I used taught me 'salatalık'. :D

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby eskandar » 2018-11-28, 18:58

I honestly don't remember where I learned it, but now I'm kind of surprised I hadn't learned salatalık anywhere. I'm sure I must have encountered it on menus in Turkey (and probably just thought it referred to salad or something). If anything I might have just assumed it was the right word by analogy, as it's used in Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, Azeri, etc. (and apparently in most of the other Turkic languages, even far-off ones like Bashkir and Karakalpak).
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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby Saim » 2018-11-28, 19:16

When I read far-off I thought you would say Chuvash or Yakut.

Chuvash: хăяр (khăjar)
Yakut: огурсу (ogursu; presumably from Russian)

To compensate for the lack of this word in Yakut, it seems that Volga Finnic languages have it (borrowed from Tatar I assume):

Mari: кияр (kijar)
Erzya: куяр (kujar)

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-11-29, 2:55

voron wrote:Which Ottoman books did you guys (Vijay and Eskandar) learn it from? Because all the books I used taught me 'salatalık'. :D

I actually didn't learn it from a book at all; I learned it from learningpracticalturkish.com, of all places, because they have some story about an Ottoman detective named Habibullah in the court of Süleyman II, IIRC, and there's one part where he angrily calls someone a "pompous hiyar." I learned what hiyar literally meant, but I didn't realize it had fallen out of use (except of course as an insult).

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby Multiturquoise » 2019-01-06, 16:48

eskandar wrote:The word salatalık came up - how often is this used vs. hıyar? Is one more common, or do they have slightly different meanings?


They are of the same meaning, though I, like most people, tend to use 'salatalık' more. Carrefour uses 'salatalık', while Migros uses 'hıyar'.

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby voron » 2019-01-15, 18:13

Hey guys,

BBC's Turkish youtube channel has dozens of interviews and documentaries with Turkish subtitles, check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeMQiX ... OHlNJxnnUw

This woman looks and speaks just like one of my neighbors. :) The title of the video is "Bağcılar'da bir gün" - "One day in Bağcılar". Bağcılar is one of working class districts of Istanbul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7pkRKnDYrw

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2019-01-17, 5:48

That's really neat and looks useful (we could probably even use (some of) those for the king-size translation thread)! Thanks for sharing, voron!

Thanks for your contribution, too, Multiturquoise! :)

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby Saim » 2019-01-19, 17:33

vijayjohn wrote:That's really neat and looks useful (we could probably even use (some of) those for the king-size translation thread)! Thanks for sharing, voron!


What about working through one of them in this thread? :)

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2019-01-20, 8:15

Saim wrote:
vijayjohn wrote:That's really neat and looks useful (we could probably even use (some of) those for the king-size translation thread)! Thanks for sharing, voron!


What about working through one of them in this thread? :)

Sure! Which one? Is the idea to just list unfamiliar vocabulary or to try to translate it into English, too?

Or we could pick off where we left off in GLOSS. :hmm: Or something else. Up to you.

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Re: Turkish Study Group

Postby Saim » 2019-04-07, 15:55

Here is a channel that could be useful, it has short clips from a drama subtitled in English and Spanish (if you search Elif English and Spanish other clips will show up):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMFXiJeP9EM

Some i+1 sentences I managed to decypher from this:

Yok, vazgeçtim.
No, I've given up.

Sonra birden garip davranmaya başldınız.
Then all of a sudden you started acting strange.

Bilmeden bir hata yaptım mı?
Have I unknowingly made a mistake?

Sen de zaten bir söz vermiştin hatırlarsan.
In any case, you also made a promise if you remember.

Sadece korumam olacaktın.
You were only going to be my bodyguard.

(My translations here are more literal than the ones given in the subtitles).
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