kıta

kıta

"Continent" or "stanza."

Here, 'kıta' refers to a large continuous area of land constituting one of Earth's main landmasses, i.e., continents.

Dünya üzerinde yedi kıta bulunmaktadır.

There are seven continents on the Earth.

In this sentence, 'kıta' is used in a compound form ('kıtalar arası', meaning 'intercontinental') to discuss traveling between continents.

Kıtalar arası yolculuklar genelde uzun sürer.

Intercontinental travel generally takes a long time.

Here, 'kıta' refers to a stanza in a poem, showing its usage in a literary context.

Bu romanın ikinci kıtasını çok beğendim.

I liked the second stanza of this poem very much.