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Turkish+Russian?
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18 Jul 2006 Tue 08:21 pm |
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If there are Rusian people, they'll probably give more examples. I just wanted to write here something similar that i've found between Turkish and Russian languages..
For example a Turkish word 'durak' is 'fool' in Russian! (every Russian laughs whenthey hear that)
Tur 'kulak' is Rus 'fist'
kabak-->bar, (squash would be kabaçok!!! 
kanat--> thick rope
karpuz sounds like karapuz which is a "little kid, baby"
and such words as 'özüm' is 'izüm' in Russian
pilav-->plov
these are just the few i could think of right now. if anybody else knows words that sound like words in another language, please share!
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18 Jul 2006 Tue 10:00 pm |
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If the Russians laugh hearing "durak" in the sense of "a stop" not "a fool" then think what a Polish person's reaction is to hear the word "kupa" only to realise that it means "a cup" not "poo" as it does in Polish. Also, a quite common Turkish name - Burak in Polish means "beetroot" but its slang use is "a hillbilly"
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19 Jul 2006 Wed 11:31 am |
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Thank you for sharing! Since I'm a linguist i'm very interested in the etymology of languages, and their integration with one another. Are there other linguists here? Would love to know you!
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19 Jul 2006 Wed 11:38 am |
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I am a linguist in a way. I did my MA thesis in English semantics at university but I have always been more interested in phonetics and grammar than semantics. Still, if you need any help with your research, I'll gladly do it.
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19 Jul 2006 Wed 11:49 am |
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i believe erdinç has made a list of some similer words between Türkçe and Arapçe,i don't know if he made with other languages too or not ,look it up,you will find the Forum here some where
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19 Jul 2006 Wed 02:31 pm |
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Quoting _Canlı: i believe erdinç has made a list of some similer words between Türkçe and Arapçe,i don't know if he made with other languages too or not ,look it up,you will find the Forum here some where |
Greetings,
According TDK there are only 39 such words. Bye.
borç
borş
boyar
brıçka
çar
çareviç
çariçe
dobra
Duma
glasnost
haraşo
izbe
kaleska
kapik
kapuska
kazaska
kolhoz
kopek
kulak
Leh
matruşka
mazot
Menşevik
Moskof
moskof
mujik
piruhi
pogrom
razmol
ruble
şapka
semaver
sovhoz
talika
tayga
telatin
troyka
votka
zanka
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20 Jul 2006 Thu 09:05 pm |
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Oh my God, thanks erdinç! I never knew tere were so many, so what do they mean? are they borrowings?
btw, another funny couple of words -
tabak - (Ru) tabacco
bardak - 'a mess'
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14 Aug 2006 Mon 02:30 pm |
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Quoting Marinka: Oh my God, thanks erdinç! I never knew tere were so many, so what do they mean? are they borrowings?
btw, another funny couple of words -
tabak - (Ru) tabacco
bardak - 'a mess' |
Yes, they are borrowings from Russian. I had read soewhere that Russian has more Turkish borrowings (more than 2 thousand) but I don't what they are. Maybe I know one
Çay -- Tea should be a borrowing from Turkish.
As for a funny example. I heard this from an American guy.
He called a company in Turkey to talk to somebody. A lady picked up the phone and he said to her that he wanted to speak to some guy. And the lady kept saying "Evet, fakat" (Yea, but) in Turkish. An the guy misunderstood that she kept saying (evet, f**k it) in English.
And yet another.
Once a Turkish girl from Bulgaria went to a cafe in Bursa.The waiter asked her "what do you like to drink?" and she answered "bana bi sok lutfen". "sok" means "juice" in Bulgarian.But in Turkish when you found a sentence like that it means in slang "f**k me once please".
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14 Aug 2006 Mon 07:39 pm |
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Oooh beware of our resident Lioness. She is on holiday sharpening her claws, but when she returns and sees your nick... 
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14 Aug 2006 Mon 08:17 pm |
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eh?
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