Turkish Crochet Terms and English Translations
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This post includes Turkish Crochet Terms which have been translated to English Crochet Terms (American Terms).
Turkish Crochet Terms and English Translations
Crochet Translation Project
Please remember this is a work-in-progress and if you have any suggestions, corrections or terms to add – please send me a message or leave a comment so I can update the chart!
Thank you to Sharon for sending me these translations in Turkish!
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| ENGLISH (U.S.) | TURKISH |
| (all) around | cevresi |
| arm | kol, kollar |
| back | arka |
| back post double crochet (BPdc) | |
| black | siyah |
| blue | mavi |
| body | govde, vucut |
| bottom | alt |
| brown | kahverengi |
| chain (ch) | zincir |
| crochet hook | tig (i without the dot and g with a hat) |
| dark | koyu |
| decrease (dec) | eksiltme, azaltma |
| double crochet (dc) | ikili trabzan |
| dress | elbise |
| each | her, hepsi |
| ear | kulak |
| edge | kenar |
| eyes | gozler |
| fasten off | |
| fingers | parmaklar |
| front | on (o with dots) |
| front post double crochet (FPdc) | |
| gray | gri |
| green | yesil |
| half double crochet (hdc) | tekli trabzan, yarm brit (br) |
| head | kafa, bas |
| increase (inc) | arttirma |
| join into ring | |
| last | son |
| legs | bacaklar |
| light | acik |
| lilac | lila |
| loop (lp) | ilmek,halka (BLO: ilmegin arkasi FLO: ilmegin onu) |
| neck | boyun |
| next | sonraki |
| nose | burun |
| orange | turuncu |
| picot | pim |
| pink | pembe |
| Polyester Fiberfill stuffing | elyaf dolgu, doldurmak, imbottitura |
| purple | mor |
| red | kirmizi |
| repeat | tekrar, kez, rifetere |
| reverse single crochet / crab stitch (rsc) | |
| ring | halka, anello |
| round | turno, tur |
| row | sira |
| safety eyes | guvenli gozler, occhi di sicurezza |
| shoes | ayakkabi |
| single crochet (sc) | sik igne (si) |
| skip (sk) | atla, ilmegi ormeden atla |
| skirt | etek |
| slip stitch (sl st) | ilmek kaydirma |
| stitch (st) | ilmek |
| tail | kuyruk |
| times | kez, defa |
| to crochet | ormek, tig isi yapmak |
| toes | ayak parmaklari |
| treble crochet (tr) | uclu trabzan |
| trousers | pantolon |
| turn | don, cevir, turno |
| white | beyaz |
| yarn over hook or yarn around hook (yo) | iplik dolama |
| yarn, thread | ip, iplik |
| yellow | sari |
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Hi Honey, Yarm brit (br) seems to be used for US half double crochet (UK half treble crochet). Zincir seems to mean chain stitches – and isin seems to mean turning chain. Hope this helps.
Hello I still don’t have these Turkish terms for crochet in English, please could you help me: -dvm:devam
-br:brit
-TY: isin tersi
-kz: kapatma zinciri….I would like to have them in the U.K version if possible, thanks.
6 X – X is often used as single crochet or times (repeats)
zincir is chain
cek is pull
12 ilmek atla – is skip 12 stitches
5 zincir çek 12 ilmek atla – is chain 5 skip 12 stitches
6x, zincir çek 12 ilmek atla, 12x, 5 zincir çek 12 ilmek atla, 6x
Someone please help me translate this im struggling
Hi Brenda, I’m afraid I only have the translations listed in the post. They were submitted by volunteers. Is there anyway you can access the original pattern that is written in Turkish? Once it has been ‘translated’ it tends to lose some of the words (especially when the Designer wrote in short form – Google isn’t up to speed on shortforms for crochet yet and often subs in things it thinks are related to make the sentence make sense.) If you have the original pattern it may be easier to cross check the Turkish term against what the volunteers have given us. I suspect the 2M is a decrease if there are less stitches in the next round but it could also be a skipped stitch? and there are many ways to make a decrease (in different stitches). I’m sorry I can’t be of more help! R