No. 3,423 in Turkish
kurşun
"Kurşun" means "lead" (the metal) or "bullet" in English.
In a sentence
Kurşun içeren boyalar sağlık için zararlıdır.
Paints containing lead are harmful to health.
In this sentence, 'kurşun' refers to 'lead', the chemical element.
Bir kurşun sıyrılıp yanımdan geçti.
A bullet grazed past me.
Here, 'kurşun' denotes 'bullet', commonly associated with firearms.
Şair şiirinde kurşun gibi ağır duygularını dile getirdi.
The poet expressed his heavy emotions like lead in his poem.
In this poetic sentence, 'kurşun' metaphorically compares the heaviness of emotions to lead.
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