uçak

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

  • IPA(key): [utʃak]

Noun

uçak (definite accusative uçağı, plural uçaklar)

  1. aeroplane, airplane

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
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular uçağım uçaklarım
2nd singular uçağın uçakların
3rd singular uçağı uçakları
1st plural uçağımız uçaklarımız
2nd plural uçağınız uçaklarınız
3rd plural uçakları uçakları

Synonyms

References

  1. Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 107
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