No. 4,919 in Turkish
felç
Paralysis.
In a sentence
Felç, genellikle vücudun hareket yeteneğini kaybetmesi durumudur.
Paralysis is generally the condition of losing the ability to move the body.
In this sentence, 'felç' is used medically to describe the condition itself.
Felç olmuş adama yardım etmeye çalıştık.
We tried to help the man who had been paralyzed.
Here, 'felç' indicates a state affecting a person, and is used adjectivally as 'felç olmuş'.
Elektrik kesintisi tüm bölgeyi felç etti.
The power outage caused paralysis throughout the area.
In this instance, 'felç' is used metaphorically to describe a situation where something is rendered incapacitated or non-functional.
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