These Turkish pet names are Turkish words: Pamuk (cotton), Boncuk (bead), Zeytin (olive), Tekir (tabby), Fındık (hazelnut). Each card gives the word in Turkish letters with its meaning, and a few are fond words such as Canım.
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Pick a kind of name
You can narrow the draw to one kind. Food and sweets gives Lokum (Turkish delight), Simit and Tarçın, cinnamon. Nature and weather gives Bulut (cloud), Poyraz, the north wind, and Kartopu, snowball. Animals gives Sarman, a yellow furry cat, and Aslan, lion.
Canım and Tatlım
Both are possessive forms. The dictionary gives Tatlım as the first-person singular possessive of Tatlı, sweet, so it reads my sweet. Canım is the same form of Can, soul.
Questions and answers
What are pet names in Turkish for a cat?
Tekir is a tabby and Sarman a yellow furry cat. Pisi is a child's word for a cat. Pamuk (cotton), Yumak (ball of yarn), Bıyık (mustache or whisker) and Minik (tiny) come from the wider list.
What is a Turkish name for a dog?
Try Aslan (lion), Kurt (wolf), Kaplan (tiger) or Paşa, pasha. Dost means friend, Cesur brave and Fırtına storm. Zeytin (olive) and Fındık (hazelnut) are food words.
What do canım and tatlım mean?
Canım is dear or darling, literally my soul, and Tatlım is my honey or sweetie, literally my sweet. Both are fond words in the dictionary. Tonton means cute and lovely.