melez

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ملز (melez, “mixed, half-bred, mongrel”),^[1] from Persian (“sweet and sour, twilight, cotton-silk mix fabric, bastard”), from Arabic مَلَس (malas, “twilight”).^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meˈlez/
Hyphenation: me‧lez

Adjective

melez

(biology) (of an animal or a plant) Having been bred from two different species; hybrid, half-bred.
Synonyms: hibrit, kırma, azma, metis, (regional) çandır
(of a person) Having been born of mixed parents; mixed-race.
(figuratively) Mixed, blended.

Declension

Predicative forms of **melez**
present tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I am)	melezim	melez miyim?
sen (you are)	melezsin	melez misin?
o (he/she/it is)	melez / melezdir	melez mi?
biz (we are)	meleziz	melez miyiz?
siz (you are)	melezsiniz	melez misiniz?
onlar (they are)	melez(ler)	melez(ler) mi?
past tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	melezdim	melez miydim?
sen (you were)	melezdin	melez miydin?
o (he/she/it was)	melezdi	melez miydi?
biz (we were)	melezdik	melez miydik?
siz (you were)	melezdiniz	melez miydiniz?
onlar (they were)	melezdiler	melez miydiler?
indirect past
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	melezmişim	melez miymişim?
sen (you were)	melezmişsin	melez miymişsin?
o (he/she/it was)	melezmiş	melez miymiş?
biz (we were)	melezmişiz	melez miymişiz?
siz (you were)	melezmişsiniz	melez miymişsiniz?
onlar (they were)	melezmişler	melez miymişler?
conditional
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (if I)	melezsem	melez miysem?
sen (if you)	melezsen	melez miysen?
o (if he/she/it)	melezse	melez miyse?
biz (if we)	melezsek	melez miysek?
siz (if you)	melezseniz	melez miyseniz?
onlar (if they)	melezseler	melez miyseler?

For negative forms, use the appropriate form of değil.

References

^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ملز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1969
^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “melez”, in Nişanyan Sözlük