Words that came into Turkish from French – Webtekno

French origin These words entered our language, especially in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Republic, and found a place in many areas from daily life to art, from fashion to science.

Even though there are many words, we some of them We compiled it for you.

Alphabet

French “alphabet” We wish the “alphabet” coming from the word was Turkish. Ancient Greek is actually translated into French.

Cinema

You may think it is English because of “cinema”, but the word “cinema” also comes from French. “Movie theater”The transition of the word into French also comes from the Ancient Greek, “kínema κίνεμα”.

Biscuit

The word “biscuit” comes from the French words “bis” meaning “twice” and “cuit” meaning “cooked”. Even though it came to us from French, it also came to French. “to cook” in Latin It goes through the verb.

Bicycle

in french “bicycle”comes to our language as “bicycle” and we add one more word to the words that do not belong to us.

Lawyer

“Lawyer”, is the French equivalent of the word “lawyer”. It means “avvocato” in Italian. Looks like there was a transaction there too.

Couch

We took the word from French to say “sofa”. “Couch”is the French form of our word.

Culture

In both French and English “culture” The word is one of the other words we get. It is translated into French from the Latin word “cultura”.

Encyclopedia

“Encyclopedia”, passes from New Latin and Ancient Greek to French. The word “encyclopedia” comes to us from French.

Economy

While we often talk about “economy”, you will now know that the word originates from French. French “economy” The origin of the word comes from the Ancient Greek “oikonomía οικονομία”, meaning “household management”.

Comma

We took the “comma”, one of our punctuation marks, from French. “Comma” The origin of the word is Latin.

Of course, the words from French are not limited to these and the list is quite long. For those who want the continuation of the content to the comments we are waiting.

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