Gömüler

Gömüler is a Turkish plural noun derived from gömü, meaning a burial, tomb, or hoard, and is used to denote multiple instances of such deposits. The verb gömmek means to bury, and gömü shares a semantic field with deposit or cache.

In archaeological and historical contexts in Turkey, gömü and gömüler refer to burial sites as well as caches of artifacts that were buried or hidden. A gömü may consist of human remains, grave goods, or portable objects buried for safekeeping, and may be associated with various ancient periods and cultures across the region.

Gömüler is also a placename in Turkey. Several settlements bear the name, typically as village or neighborhood names in different provinces. In these uses, the word functions as a toponym rather than a direct description of a burial or hoard, though the etymology reflects historical associations with burial practices or caches in the landscape.

In scholarly usage, gömüler thus encompasses both funerary contexts and caches in archaeological contexts, while as a place name it appears in geographic names without a fixed geographical meaning beyond the designation.