böyük

Büyük is a Turkish adjective meaning big, large, or great. It denotes physical size or figurative prominence and can be used both attributively before a noun (büyük ev) and predicatively in a sentence (Ev çok büyük). In Turkish, adjectives do not inflect for number or case, and degree is formed with words such as daha for the comparative and en for the superlative (daha büyük, en büyük).

The word is native to Turkish and has cognates across related Turkic languages. It is widely used in compounds and place names to convey size or importance, and appears in political and institutional titles such as Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

Common compounds include büyükşehir (metropolitan municipality), büyüklük (size, magnitude, greatness), büyükelçi (ambassador), büyükelçilik (embassy), büyükbaba (grandfather), Büyükada (the Big Island), and Büyükçekmece (a district west of Istanbul). The term also functions in everyday language to emphasize importance or scale in various contexts.

Büyük is also a surname in Turkish-speaking communities and appears in many place names and historical expressions. Its flexible usage in compounds and idioms makes it a frequent element in Turkish toponymy, titles, and everyday speech.