<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Siyah (black),<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beyaz (white),<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mavi (Blue),<\/p>\n\n\n\n
are not original Turkish words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkish originals were\/are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Black: Kara<\/p>\n\n\n\n
White: Ak<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blue: G\u00f6k<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Foreign loanwords exclusively used to mean colors, nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkish words can be used as adjectives, to define color, but also to give meaning other than colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBlack Friday\u201d can be translated only as \u201cKara Cuma\u201d, but not \u201cSiyah Cuma\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because the \u201cblack\u201d in \u201cBlack Friday\u201d is not related with color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Original Turkish words have deep meanings, probably loanwords also have deep meanings in their respective languages, but they are exclusively used for colors in Turkish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkish original words have deeper meaning and meaningful connection with other words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blue: G\u00f6k<\/p>\n\n\n\n
G\u00f6k also means Sky, because sky is blue. G\u00f6k also means \u201cheavens\u201d, because \u201cskies\u201d are \u201cheavens\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Even I can claim that, in Western and especially in Hollywood film culture it is believed that \u201cdead people goes to heaven as stars\u201d has its roots in Turkic\/Hunnic culture. Because in Turkic belief , \u201cu\u00e7mak\u201d (to fly away) is used, to say somebody is passed away. You can fly into sky, not into ground. I don’t know if there is not such belief in Semitic\/Indian\/Aryan\/Greek culture. There is \u201cunderworld\u201d in these cultures)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green: Ye\u015fil<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The word for \u201cGreen\u201d in Turkish (YE\u015e\u0130L) is a miraculous word. If linguists and scientists tried to devise\/produce a word, which connects \u201cGreen\u201d, \u201cWater\u201d, \u201cLife\u201d, \u201cto Live\u201d \u201cGreenary\u201d \u201cSpring\/Summer\u201d and \u201cAge (length of \u201clife\u201d)\u201d, they could not devise a better word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Old form of YE\u015e\u0130L: YA\u015eIL (Green)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Following this pattern: Replacing the original back vowels with front vowels<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00c7ak-\u0131\u00e7 => \u00c7ek-i\u00e7 \u201chammer\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ya\u015f-\u0131l => Ye\u015f-il \u201cgreen\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ya\u015f: means \u201cmoisturized\u201d\/\u201dwatered\u201d\/\u201dwatery\u201d\/\u201dwet\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green is YA\u015eIL\/YE\u015e\u0130L, literal meaning \u201cwatery, watered, with water\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can we think of a \u201cnatural green\u201d without water? Absolutely no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can we think of life, without water? Absolutely no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Turkish, the words for \u201cWater (YA\u015e\/SU)\u201d, \u201cGreen (YE\u015e\u0130L)\u201d and \u201cLife (YA\u015eAM)\u201d has same root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
YA\u015eA-MAK and YA\u015eAM: to Live and Life. These words also comes from \u201cwater\u201d and therefore related with YE\u015e\u0130L\/green. How meaningful and wonderful connection. Without water, no life can exist. Without water we cannot live, we cannot \u201cstay green\/alive\u201d. Any space exploration today looking for life in other planets directly looks for the existence of water. Therefore water-life-green connection in Turkish looks so miraculous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then comes, \u201cage\/ya\u015f\u201d (lenght of LIFE). In Turkish, this word also related with \u201cWater (YA\u015e\/SU)\u201d, \u201cGreen (YE\u015e\u0130L)\u201d and \u201cLife (YA\u015eAM)\u201d . In Anatolian Turkish, the connection between \u201cAge\/ya\u015f\u201d and \u201cgreen\u201d is forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, age\/ya\u015f and green\/ye\u015fil is closely related in other Turkish\/Turkic languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We ask this question to learn the age of something :<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHow old are you\u201d (Ka\u00e7 <\/em>ya\u015f<\/em><\/strong>\u0131ndas\u0131n)<\/em> ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In some Turkic languages, question is asked this way, the original way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHow many green (season) have you seen? (Ka\u00e7 <\/em>ya\u015f<\/em><\/strong>\/yaz g\u00f6rd\u00fcn?)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the ancient Turkic culture the age of something\/someone was calculated based on how many times they had seen \u201cgreen season\u201d, which is \u201cyaz\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So we see, colors reveal lots of things in original language.Green (ye\u015fil) in Turkish is not just a color name, but it has deep connection with water (su, ya\u015f, \u0131slak\/sulak), life (ya\u015fam, greenary), age (ya\u015f) and summer (yaz). They have same root in Turkish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Think of a desert. When you see an oasis, a \u201cgreen (ye\u015fil)\u201d area in the desert, you automatically know that there is \u201cwater (ya\u015f\/su)\u201d in that place, and there is \u201clife (ya\u015fam)\u201d in that place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am not aware of any other language, in which all these words \u201cWater (YA\u015e\/SU)\u201d, \u201cGreen (YE\u015e\u0130L)\u201d and \u201cto live (YA\u015eA-MAK), \u201cLife (YA\u015eAM)\u201d, \u201cSummer (YAZ)\u201d, and \u201cage -length of life (YA\u015e)\u201d are all related to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note-1: Turkish proper name \u201cYa\u015far\u201d, if written with today’s Anatolian Turkish phonology, would be written as \u201cYe\u015fer\u201d, because of the vowel shift like in ya\u015f\u0131l to ye\u015fil. Because the name Ya\u015far was given to scrawny, weak babies as a desire\/praying by parents for the baby \u201cto live,to get green\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Note-2: Word for summer (yaz) also meant \u201cspring\u201d in old Turkish. \u201cBahar\u201d is a Persian loanword. Probably Ancient Turkics were living in colder regions of the world and they only had 2 seasons, \u201cyaz\/summer\/green season and k\u0131\u015f\/winter\/non-green season, not 4 seasons)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The connection between \u201cya\u015f\u201d and \u201cyaz\u201d: In Northern Branch of Turkic languages, K\u0131p\u00e7ak\/Kipchak (Kazakh, Kyrgyz) some sound shifts happened. Therefore some basic pronunciation difference arose with Southern and Western (Chaghatay and Oghuz) Turkish. However, there were not strict lines between these dialects. Words with new meaning\/concepts are borrowed from each other along with new pronounciation)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Western : Kipchak<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ba\u015f: bas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ya\u015f: yas\/yaz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n K\u0131\u015f: k\u0131s<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Be\u015f: bes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Y\u00fcz: j\u00fcz (this one lives in Anatolia only in informal pronounciation of numbers ending <\/em>in \u015f\/\u00e7 letters, be\u015f-j\u00fcz:500, \u00fc\u00e7-c\u00fcz:300)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sa\u00e7: sa\u015f<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mehmet U\u00e7ar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Turkish, what’s the difference between ak\/kara and siyah\/beyaz? What is their origin? How can they be used? Siyah (black), Beyaz (white), Mavi (Blue), are not original Turkish words. Turkish originals were\/are: Black: Kara White: Ak Blue: G\u00f6k Foreign loanwords exclusively used to mean colors, nothing else. 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