Cismi

Cismi is a Turkish morphological form derived from the noun cisim, meaning body or physical object. It functions as a third-person possessive construction that expresses possession, roughly translating to “his/her/its body.” Turkish possessive suffixes attach to the noun and follow vowel harmony, so cismi represents the common written form of this possessive relation.

In broader Turkish usage, cismi occurs in contexts discussing corporeality or material reality. It can appear in scientific, philosophical, or literary discourse to denote the physical body or the tangible world, as distinct from spiritual or abstract dimensions. The term is not typically treated as a standalone lexical item in dictionaries; rather, it is a bound form used within phrases that mark possession or attribution to a subject.

Etymology traces cismi to the base noun cisim (body, object), a word that entered Turkish with the meaning of physical form and substance. The root itself is linked to older Semitic and Persian-influenced vocabularies through Turkish linguistic history, where jism or cisim has long signified corporeal matter. Over time, the possessive form and its usage broadened to cover general notions of the physical or material realm in Turkish.

See also: cisim, beden, fizik.