küçük

Meaning

1. small, little
2. minor, of little importance

Hyphenated as

kü‧çük

Pronounced as (IPA)

/cyˈtʃyc/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كوچوك (küçük, “small, little”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kiçük, “small, little”), from Proto-Turkic *kičük, *kičüg (“small, little”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰃𐰲𐰏 (kičig), Karakhanid [script needed] (kičüg), Kazakh кіші (kışı), кішкене (kışkene), Uyghur كىچىك (kichik), Kyrgyz кичинекей (kicinekey), Shor кичиг, Yakut куччугуй (kuccuguy), etc. According to Clauson it is hard to explain the final /k/ and rounded vowels in modern languages like Turkish and they should be regarded as borrowings from Persian کوچک (kučak, “small”). However this is unlikely and can not be justified solely based on this assumption due to forms like küçü-l- (“to become small”), diminutive form küçü-cük and preservation of /ç/ despite the long vowel of the Persian form.

Sentences

Seni küçük orospu !

You little bitch!

Ve bu küçük an , bana bütün geldiğimiz yoldan uzun görünüyordu.

And this little moment seemed to me a long way from the way we had come.

Küçük katolik kilisesi ve daha büyük olan protestan kilisesi vardır.

There is a small catholic church and a larger Protestant church.

Geceleri eve hep arka taraftaki küçük kapıdan girerdi.

He always entered the house at night through the little door in the back.

Küçük Haşan bir şeyler mınldandı.

Little Hasan said something.

Fakat bu küçük vilayet merkezinin iki doktorlu hastanesinde buz makinesi yoktu.

But this small provincial center did not have an ice machine in its hospital with two doctors.

Küçük Haşan eve eli boş dönmektense akşam trenine kadar beklemeye karar verdi .

Little Hasan decided to wait until the evening train instead of going home empty-handed.

Küçük salonun bütün iskemleleri dolmuştu.

All the chairs of the small hall were full.