Merhaba,

The dictionary I looked in defines "to sit down" as "oturmak", but this one means just "to sit" as well. So if I say "oturuyorum" that would mean I´m just sitting in place and not moving. So, is it possible to say "I´m sitting down" to emphasize that I´m moving down to my seat at the moment of speaking, but I´m not sitting yet?

Merhaba.

I have always been convinced that the word osmanlı and Ottoman sultans names starting with Osman have the same origin and that is from Arabic language and from the Muslim cultural field in general. I don´t know any Arabic word which sounds like this, but perhaps my idea came from the fact that the third of the Rashidun caliphs, Prophet´s companion- Uthman is also sometimes referred to as "Osman" when his name is oficially written in Arabic alphabet as عثمان - so is the name of the first sultan of the Ottoman Empire - Osman I (Gazi).

Surprisingly, today in a university class of Turkish early history I was told that the "Osmanlı İmparatorluğı" was named after one of the Turkish tribes originating from the Seljuq Turks. So finally, what is the connection between the word "Osman(lı )" in Turkish history and the caliph Osman who didn´t have much to do with Turks after all? Did one of them take the name after another or is it just a conincidence?

Merhaba,

how do you translate such a short phrase: nasıl olmuş ama.?

Does it make sense at all? With "ama" at the end?

Or is it just an incomplete expression?

I guess you will be part of that group also

You shouldn´t fight fire with fire, you should use water to fight fire.

First you can´t fight racism by screaming racism. People who are constantly screaming the racism card for every issue thinking they are some sort of righteous  intellectual, might want to rethink their actions. Sometimes "racism " isn´t the right word to describe a persons behaviour. When you scream racism , first and foremost you put your opponent on the defensive. Secondly if you continue to use for every rant it gets a little boring and redundant. You are basically trying to sterotype everyones behaviour under one word and that is incorrect. What is basically happening here is you are over using the word constantly to the point that  the word has lost its currency when you scream it and just becomes an annoyance showing you are overreacting in these situations and can not actually bring any value to the table. I don´t understand how someone can post so many tacky sexual inuendos ( which they think are seemingly harmless and funny in the off topic colums and at the same time scream racism on all other issues. ) I think he shows his own form of racism against females in the off topic colums and when I read them I scream you racist pig you show you are a woman demoralizing hating freak! You need to rethink how you think! If someone took the time to look at all your posts, they would understand that your  thoughts and ideas are miscontrued.  The End

how can I translate "birde" from sentence

Birde martıların kanatlarından seyretmek İstanbulu

şimdiden teşekkürler

Merhaba,

I found such a sentence in an online newspaper:

...saldırganların küfür ve ırkçı hakaretlerde bulunarak “Kebabistan” adlı restorana saldırdığı belirtildi. 

literally I should translate the part marked in red saying that "the attackers were found in racist invectives", but I suppose the real sense is that they "used racist invectives" or "said racist invectives". So, my question is - can the construction ´-de bulunmak´ be used with other nouns in the meaning of "use/say" or is it only connected with "hakaretler" as a fixed phrase? 

Can I say for example: övgülerde bulundu as "he said compliments"/"he praised"?

#edit

perhaps "to express" is a better translation?

Oh, I see my mistake. I referred to Sunnah as book, because I realize it must have been written somehow, but that´s true.. probably the storage of Sunnah consist of more than one book

So, my friend´s question: "sünnet ne demek?" should not be translated as "what is sünnet?because I don´t know" BUT more like "what do you mean by sünnet?" is that right?

So, now as for translation of my friend´s last message:

"sünnet ayrıca bi durum için kullanılır

o durumda Hz Muhammed in yaptığı bir şeydir

ama ondan belki biraz korkabilir insanlar"

Now, after you cleared out my mind I understand it as:

"Sünnet is also used for a situation(?)

In this case it is something that Great Muhammad did

but it is a thing that some people are afraid of."

Is that correct?