Kapsamayan

Kapsamayan is a Turkish adjective formed from the verb kapsamak, meaning to cover or include, with the negative participle suffix -ayan. The result conveys “not covering” or “not within the scope.” In technical and formal Turkish, kapsamayan is used to describe items, conditions, or roles that do not fall under the scope of a specific policy, project, regulation, study, or contract.

In practice, kapsamayan is often used in contrast to terms like kapsan veya kapsanan (covered/within scope) and the noun phrase kapsam dışı (out of scope). While kapsam dışı is the more common expression in everyday writing to designate what lies outside the scope, kapsamayan emphasizes an active exclusion or failure to be included, typically as part of a defined set or list in official documents.

Common contexts include project charters, audits, regulatory texts, and research briefs, where authors delineate what is within the scope and what is kapsamayan. For example, a project document might state that certain technologies or processes are kapsamayan and therefore not subject to the project’s requirements, or a report might list kapsamayan data points that are not analyzed.

Etymologically, kapsamayan derives from kapsamak with the present participle suffix, reflecting Turkish’s tendency to form descriptive adjectives that qualify nouns by relation to coverage or inclusion. The term remains primarily technical and is most often encountered in formal Turkish prose.