No. 3,777 in Turkish
çekirdek
"Çekirdek" means "seed" or "core" in English.
In a sentence
Karpuz çekirdeği çok serttir.
Watermelon seeds are very hard.
Here, 'çekirdek' refers to the seed of a fruit, in this case, a watermelon.
Ailenin çekirdeği anne ve babadır.
The core of the family is the mother and father.
In this sentence, 'çekirdek' metaphorically means 'core' or 'nucleus' as in the central part of the family.
Bu bilgisayarın çekirdek sayısı dört.
This computer has four cores.
Here, 'çekirdek' is used technically to mean 'core' as in a computer processor core.
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