anlamlar

Anlamlar is the plural form of the Turkish noun anlam, meaning meaning or sense. In linguistic and lexicographic contexts, anlamlar refers to the different senses that a word or text can convey. The term encompasses the study of how words encode information, how this information is interpreted by speakers, and how meanings shift across contexts and over time.

The concept of meaning in linguistics is often divided into several layers. Lexical meaning concerns the sense that a word carries as a unit within the language, including its denotation (the real-world objects or concepts it refers to) and its connotation (associations and evaluative aspects). Polysemy occurs when a single word has multiple related senses, while homonymy describes words that sound the same or are spelled the same but have unrelated meanings. Pragmatics adds context-driven meaning, showing how speaker intention, social factors, and situational context influence interpretation.

Meanings are not fixed; they change through processes such as semantic shift, broadening, narrowing, pegognition (pejoration or amelioration), and metaphorical extension. Dictionaries and corpora often enumerate anlamlar for lemmas, listing distinct senses and typical usage. In linguistic study, anlamlar are analyzed with reference to syntax, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics to explain how language users access and negotiate meaning in communication.

In Turkish linguistics and lexicography, anlamlar also play a central role in organizing dictionaries, grammar descriptions, and semantic research. The concept supports understanding how Turkish words convey nuanced information and how different senses interact within sentences and discourse.