Tarihleri

Tarihleri is a Turkish noun form connected to tarih, which has two main senses: date or history. The form tarihleri arises from the combination of the plural suffix -ler and the third-person plural possessive suffix -leri, and it can function as “their dates” or, depending on context, as “the histories of (things)” such as Roma ve Yunan tarihleri (the histories of Rome and Greece). Turkish does not use articles, so definiteness is determined by context and related words.

Etymology and meaning: Tarih comes from Persian tarikh and Arabic ta’rikh, transmitted to Turkish through historical usage in Ottoman Turkish. Over time, tarih acquired a broad range of related meanings, including calendars of dates as well as narratives of past events. The plural possessive form tarihleri typically marks ownership by a plural subject, yielding translations like “their dates” or “their histories,” while the same root in a different syntactic position can refer to the histories of particular subjects.

Usage: In everyday Turkish, tarihleri appears in phrases such as Aile üyelerinin doğum tarihleri güncellendi (The family members’ birth dates were updated) or Roma ve Yunan tarihleri konusunda çalışmalar sürüyor (Research on the histories of Rome and Greece is ongoing). The form is common in archival, genealogical, and academic contexts where dates or historical narratives are being discussed.

See also: tarih, tarihçe, takvim, kronoloji.