uçak

From uçmak (“to fly”). The word was coined during the Turkish language reform and was originally proposed to denote the concept 'airfield, airport'. However, it came to denote 'aircraft' instead, displacing the proposed coinage uçku (“airplane”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [uˈtʃɑk]
• Hyphenation: u‧çak

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uçak (definite accusative uçağı, plural uçaklar)

1. (aviation) aeroplane, airplane

• tayyare (obsolete)

• uçak on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tr