Welcome to the second installment of Turkish slang! If you haven't read the first publication on the topic, you can do so here.
DISCLAIMER: This article features sexual slang (scroll further down for those) and therefore is not recommended for adolescents or children. Reader discretion is advised.
Abbreviations continued
The previous article featured a long list of common, set-in-stone abbreviations. Unfortunately for you learners, Turkish people often choose to abbreviate entire sentences as well. This can result in unprecedented abbreviations, which forces learners to guess the implied words.
This style of vowel dropping was majorly prevalent during the days of the push-button cellphone when texting was a pain in the buttocks. Nowadays it is used less extensively, and it is only observed in short answers, greetings, and generally unimportant texts.
Original sentence | Abbreviated version | Translation |
|---|---|---|
Salak mısın? | slk msn | Are you dumb? |
Geleceğim birazdan. | glcm brzdn | I'm coming in a bit. |
Öpüyorum çok! | öpyrm çk | Sending lots of kisses! |
Bence bayağı sıçtın. | bnce baya sçtn | I think you're really fucked. |
New generation gay/girlie Turkish slang
As mentioned in the previous article, a word's final syllable(s) can be replaced with -o to create its gayified or girliefied form. Here is an updated list of such slang words (keep in mind that any word can be girliefied using this technique, the list below includes only the most common ones).
Slang | Meaning | Original Word | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
güno | good morning | günaydın | |
aşko | my love | aşkım | mostly used when referring to other gay or female friends |
aşko kuşko | girlypop, diva, slay | ??? | describes the "iconic, diva" aesthetic of the users of such slang |
cano | my life | canım | same as aşko |
yeto | Enough! | Yeter! | an exclamation |
berbo | very bad | berbat | |
gerzo | dumbass | geri zekâlı | not exclusively gay or girlie slang |
ne münosebo | I would never! | Ne münasebet! | lit. "What relationship?" |
zengo | rich | zengin | |
hasto | sick | hasta |
Slang for private parts
Turks are very creative when it comes to naming their private parts. Here are a few select examples:
Slang | Meaning | Original meaning |
|---|---|---|
yarrak | p€nis | weapon |
çavuş | p€nis | sergeant |
eleman | €nis | employee |
ufaklık | p€nis | kiddo |
alet | p€nis | tool |
çük | p€nis | stick |
anakonda | p€nis | anaconda |
sakallı | p€nis with a lot of pubic hair | bearded |
(Your Name) Junior | p€nis | ~ |
pıttık | v@gina | child (< "bızdık") |
kuku | v@gina | possibly of imitative origin? |
mağara | v@gina | cave |
ambar | v@gina | warehouse |
ön kapı | v@gina | front door |
kirpi | v@gina with spiky hairs | hedgehog or porcupine |
billur | cl!toris | crystal |
fasulye | cl!toris | bean (possibly a calque from English) |
bızır | cl!toris | clitoris (from Arabic) |
arka kapı | @nus | backdoor |
büzük | @nus | anus (only in slang, not used anatomically) |
göt | @ss | ass (only in slang), the hind of any object (slang) |
kıç | @ss | same as above |
makat | @ss | cushion, anything to sit on (from Arabic) |
mabat | @ss | follow-up, post scriptum, anything that comes after something else (from Arabic) |
küfe | @ss | wicker basket (possibly because the ass hair resembles a wicker basket when grown out? compare this) |
kestane | pr0st@te/@nus | chestnut (probably because of the prostate's shape) |
Other sexual slang
There are many euphemisms surrounding sexual acts. Let's take a look at some of them.
Slang | Meaning | Original Word | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
vermek | (for the submissive party) to have s€x, to consent to s€x | ~ | from the concept of giving permission |
31 (otuz bir) | m@sturb@ti0n | "el" (hand) in abjad numerals (ال) | the Turkish word "el" (hand) was written as "ال" in Ottoman Turkish, which was equal to 31 in the abjad numeral system |
31 çekmek | to m@sturb@te | ~ | "çekmek" means to pull |
sakso | oral s€x | saksafon | lit. "saxophone" |
mercimeği fırına vermek | to have s€x (usually secretly) | ~ | lit. "to put the lentil in the oven", the lentil being the zygote, and the oven being the uterus |
becermek | (for the active party) to f*** | ~ | interesting semantic shift: to succeed in doing > to break or ruin something > to fuck |
pompa | s€x, a f***ing (noun) | ~ | lit. "pump" |
yiyişmek | to make out, to kiss with vigour | ~ | lit. "to eat one another" |
boşalmak | to ejaculate | ~ | lit. "to empty" |
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