Turkish/Contents/Basic vocabulary pictureable words
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This is a list of vocabulary based on a translation of part of the Basic English lexicon.
angle açı (geometry), görüş açısı, bakış açısı (when referring to a person's view point)
ant karınca
apple elma
arch kemer (also means belt)
arm kol
army ordu
baby bebek
bag torba
ball top
band bant (as in a tape or a hair band - not as in a group of people making music)
basin leğen
basket sepet
bath banyo
bed yatak
bee bal arısı (arı means bee, bal arısı is literally honey bee - note that arı also means pure, clean)
bell zil
berry çilek
bird kuş
blade bıçak ağzı, bıçak cinsinden araçların kesici kısmı
board kurul
boat kayık
bone kemik
book kitap
boot bot (as in the shoe), önyüklemek (as in booting a computer)
bottle şişe
box kutu
boy erkek çocuk
brain beyin
brake fren
branch dal (noun), dallanmak (verb)
brick tuğla
bridge köprü
brush fırça
bucket kova
bulb ampül
button düğme
cake kek (corresponds to cake well), pasta (can be cake or cookie, gets specified as yaş pasta (cake) and kuru pasta or kurabiye (cookies))
camera fotoğraf makinesi (note that kamera means video camera)
card kart
cart el arabası
carriage taşıt (generic), binek otomobili (this is not an often used expression, if at all)
cat kedi
chain zincir
cheese peynir
chest (noun; part of the body; also breast, bosom) göðüs
chest (noun; container) sandık; kutu
chin çene
church kilise
circle çember
clock saat; duvar saati (wall clock)
cloud bulut
coat palto
collar yaka
comb tarak
cord kablo
cow inek
cup fincan
curtain perde (noun) perde takmak (to hang curtains)
cushion yastýk
dog köpek
door kapý
drain (verb) kurutmak; suyunu çekme; suyunu akýtma
drawer çekmece (as in chest of drawers), keþideci (as in money related business - rarely used word)
dress giysi; elbise
drop (verb; to pay a fare, drop/put a coin into a slot) býrakmak (fare); damla (noun)
ear kulak
egg yumurta
engine motor
eye; göz (((definitely!) halka (better göz?; halka means circle?)))
face yüz
farm çiftlik
feather tüy
finger parmak
fish balýk
flag bayrak
floor döþeme
fly uçuþ
foot ayak
fork çatal
fowl kümes hayvanı (kuþ means bird)
frame çerçeve
garden bahçe
girl kýz
glove eldiven
goat keçi
gun top
hair saç
hammer çekiç
hand el
hat þapka
head kafa
heart yürek
hook kanca
horn boynuz
horse beygir
hospital hastane
house ev
island ada
jewel mücevher
kettle çaydanlýk
key anahtar
knee diz
knife býçak
knot düðüm
leaf yaprak
leg bacak
library kütüphane; kitaplýk (though this means bookshelf, it's sometimes used in colloquial Turkish as library)
line çizgi
lip dudak
lock kilit
map harita (I'd keep away from eþlem - that's technical and hardly ever used)
match (noun) maç (as in a football match), (verb) eþleþtirmek
monkey maymun
moon ay
mouth aðýz
muscle kas
nail çivi
neck boyun
needle iðne
nerve sinir
net net (as in 'clear'), ağ (as in what you use for catching fish), þebeke (as in network)
nose burun
nut kuru yemiş, fýndýk ve ceviz gibi sert kabuklu yemiþ (foods), vida somunu (as in what you have in your toolbox)
office ofis
orange portakal
oven fýrýn
parcel parsel (as in a piece of land), paket, koli (as in a package)
pen tükenmez kalem, dolma kalem (this is a fountain pen)
pencil kurþun kalem
picture resim (can be drawn, painted or photographed), görüntü (means view, principally, used for digital images lately)
pig domuz
pin toplu iğne (as in 'pinning a paper on the wall'); bacak (this means leg, I don't know why it is even in the dictionary)
pipe boru
plane düz (adj., as in 'a plane surface'); düzlem (as in 'we landed on a plane' or as in geometry); rende (dictionary has this but rende is something that we use to grate things, like carrots and cheese and stuff)
plate tabak
plough pulluk
pocket cep
pot tencere, kap
potato patates
prison hapishane
pump pompa (as in a bike pump), tulumba (as in a water pump)
rail demir yolu (as in where the trains go), týrabzan (as the rails by the stairs)
rat sıçan (more like rat), fare (more like mouse)
receipt fiş (as the piece of paper you get after shopping); alýndý (this sounds a little technical, like the finance keepers would use)
ring yüzük (what you wear on your finger); halka (to express the form, more like a circle)
rod çubuk
roof çatı (more common); dam (used in specific context)
root kök (as in a plant's root); temel (as in 'basis')
sail yelken
school okul
scissors makas
screw vida
seed tohum
sheep koyun
shelf raf (this is the word used!), sergen (never heard it used to express shelf, but obviously there is some context for it that I don't know)
ship gemi
shirt gömlek
shoe ayakkabý
skin deri
skirt etek
snake yýlan
sock çorap (this is what you wear on your feet), yumruk (means fist .. as in 'sergen' above, I don't know this as sock, unless sock in English might mean fist)
spade bahçývan küreği; bahçıvan beli
sponge sünger
spoon kaþýk
spring (metal coil) yay
spring (season of year) ilkbahar; bahar
spring (source of water) kaynak
square kare
stamp mühür; ýstampa
star yýldýz
station durak; istasyon
stem aðaç gövdesi
stick çubuk; tahta parçasý
stocking stoklama (to stock thing); kadın çorabı (women's socks)
stomach mide (upper stomach, gastric? says dictinary), karın (lower stomach; abdominal stomach)
store (US) maðaza
street sokak
sun güneþ
table çizelge
tail kuyruk
thread iplik (as what the cat likes to play with), iþ parçacýðý (rarely used phrase in Turkish, as in 'part of a work')
throat boðaz
thumb baþparmak
ticket bilet
toe ayak parmaðý
tongue dil
tooth diþ
town kasaba
train tren
tray tepsi
tree aðaç (ağaca týrmandýrmak: to make someone to climb a tree!)
trousers pantolon
umbrella þemsiye
wall duvar
watch saat; cep saati (pocket watch); kol saati (arm watch)
wheel teker
whip kamçý
whistle ýslýk
window pencere
wing kanat
wire tel; kablo
worm kurt
