ISMI

Ismi ismi Turkish linguistic term built from isim, the common Turkish word for "name." The form is used to express possession by a third person, roughly translating to "his name" or "her name" in English, and it appears in phrases that name or identify someone or something. Turkish is an agglutinative language, so possessive suffixes attach to nouns and follow vowel harmony; the exact spelling of the possessive form can vary with context, giving forms such as ismi in some constructions.

In everyday Turkish, the more common word for referring to a person’s name is ad, as in adınız or adınız ne is the usual way to ask for someone’s name. isim serves a similar function but is often encountered in more formal, literary, or technical language, or in discussions of naming as a linguistic concept. When used to specify a person’s name in a sentence, isim may appear with additional modifiers or in compound noun phrases such as kişinin ismi or kurumun ismi to indicate ownership or designation.

As a noun phrase element, isim follows the same Turkish patterns as other nouns: it can be possessed, modified, or combined with other words within a larger noun phrase. It does not form a separate grammatical category beyond its role in indicating a name, but its possessive form illustrates how Turkish marks relationships between a name and the possessor.

See also: Turkish grammar, noun phrases, possessive suffixes, isim, ad.