Terms
Each record puts the English term on the left and its Turkish equivalent on the right. Context shows where each word is used. Origin traces both words back to their roots, to show why they carry the same meaning.
emission – salım
- English context
- Climate and air quality: greenhouse gas emissions, exhaust emissions from vehicles.
- Turkish context
- İklim ve hava kalitesi: sera gazı salımı, karbon salımı.
- English term
- emission
- Turkish equivalent
- Sound-alike: emisyonsalım
- English origin
- From Latin emissio, “a sending out”, from the verb emittere: ex- (out) + mittere (to send). An emission is something released from inside to the outside.
- Turkish origin
- From the verb salmak, “to let go, to release”, as when smoke or a scent is released into the air. The suffix -ım turns a verb into the name of the act, as almak (to take) gives alım (a purchase). So salım builds the “sending out” of emittere from a native Turkish root.
autonomous – özerk
- English context
- Technology and government: autonomous vehicles, autonomous systems, an autonomous region.
- Turkish context
- Yönetimde yerleşik: özerk bölge, özerk kurum. Teknolojide: özerk araç, özerk sistem.
- English term
- autonomous
- Turkish equivalent
- Sound-alike: otonomözerk
- English origin
- From Greek autonomos, “living by its own laws”: autos (self) + nomos (law). It describes something that runs by its own rules, without being steered from outside.
- Turkish origin
- Built from two Turkish parts: öz (self, own) + erk (power, authority), so “holding its own authority”. It matches the Greek pattern: öz stands for autos (self) and erk (authority) for nomos (law), so both words describe something that governs itself.
agent – eylemci
- English context
- Software and AI: an AI agent, a program that carries out tasks on a user’s behalf.
- Turkish context
- Yazılım ve yapay zekada: yapay zeka eylemcisi, kullanıcı adına iş yapan bir program.
- English term
- agent
- Turkish equivalent
- Sound-alike: ajaneylemci
- English origin
- From Latin agens, “one who acts”, from the verb agere: to do, to set in motion. An agent is whoever carries out the action.
- Turkish origin
- Built from eylem (action) + -ci, the suffix for the one who does something (iş, work → işçi, worker). Eylem itself comes from the old verb eylemek, “to do”. So eylemci carries the “doing” of Latin agere in a native Turkish root.
project – tasarı
- English context
- Business and engineering: a construction project, project management, a project schedule.
- Turkish context
- İş ve mühendislikte: yapı tasarısı, tasarı yönetimi, tasarı takvimi.
- English term
- project
- Turkish equivalent
- Sound-alike: projetasarı
- English origin
- From Latin proiectum, “something thrown forward”, from the verb proicere: pro- (forward) + iacere (to throw). A project is work cast ahead in the mind, planned before it is carried out. Turkish “proje” came in through French projet.
- Turkish origin
- From the same root as the verb tasarlamak, “to plan, to shape in the mind before doing”. The same root gives tasarım (design). So tasarı carries the “casting forward” of Latin proicere in a word Turkish readers understand at once: work built in the mind before it is done.
inflation – edersizlik
- English context
- Economics: high inflation, the inflation rate, the effect of inflation on wages and savings.
- Turkish context
- Ekonomide: yüksek edersizlik, edersizlik oranı, edersizliğin ücretlere ve birikimlere etkisi.
- English term
- inflation
- Turkish equivalent
- Sound-alike: enflasyonedersizlik
- English origin
- From Latin inflare, “to blow into, to puff up”: in- (into) + flare (to blow). The word first meant swelling; in economics it came to name a general rise in prices, that is, money losing its purchasing power. It names the change through an image of swelling rather than directly.
- Turkish origin
- Built on eder, “what something is worth”, which, like değer (value), is formed from a verb with -er (etmek → eder, değmek → değer). Then come -siz (without) and -lik (the state of), as in işsizlik (unemployment, from iş, work). In everyday Turkish eder often means the price of goods; here, as with değer, it is the worth of money. So edersizlik names money losing its worth directly, where inflare uses an image of swelling.