Gelitiren

Gelitiren is a Turkish linguistic form that most closely corresponds to the standard word geliştiren, the present active participle of the verb geliştirmek, meaning to develop or to improve. The form gelitiren is typically encountered as a nonstandard spelling that arises when Turkish diacritical marks are omitted or when texts do not preserve the Turkish alphabet. In formal Turkish, the correct spelling is geliştiren.

Etymology and morphology: Gelitiren is built from the verb geliştir- plus the participle suffix -en. The base geliştir- comes from geliştir-mek, a compound meaning to cause to grow or improve. The suffix -en marks the present participle, functioning as an agentive modifier: “the one who develops” or “that which develops.”

Usage: Gelitiren can describe a person or thing that causes development. In Turkish, however, the noun form geliştirici is more common for meaning “developer” or “one who develops.” In sentences, one may encounter phrases like “geliştiren bir ekip” (a team that develops) or “geliştirici teknolojiler” (developer technologies). The nonstandard gelitiren appears mainly in informal writing or contexts where diacritics are stripped; standard Turkish prefers geliştiren.

See also: geliştirici, geliştirme, gelişim, geliştirmek.