bölümü

Bölümü is a Turkish term that forms from the noun bölüm, meaning division, section, chapter, or episode, combined with the third-person singular possessive suffix. The resulting form is commonly translated as “his/her/its division” and appears in Turkish when indicating ownership or association of a division or part with a person or thing.

Grammatically, bölümü is produced by attaching the possessive suffix -ü to bölüm, with vowel harmony determining the exact suffix. It is used in noun phrases such as bölümünün içeriği (the content of the chapter) or bölümünün başlığı (the title of the chapter). In standard Turkish prose, the base noun bölüm is used for “chapter/section/episode,” and bölümü serves as the possessive form in contexts requiring a possessive relationship.

Applications of the form occur across literature, journalism, and media in the sense of a discrete part of a work. Bölüm refers to a segment of a book, article, or program, while bölümü expresses the part belonging to a particular subject, organization, or person when forming a possessive construction. Because Turkish relies on suffixation rather than separate prepositions for possession, the same idea is often expressed with the full possessive form or through related genitive constructions.

Note: When capitalized as Bölümü, the term may appear as a proper name or title in headings or names of works, but there is no widely recognized standalone entity known simply as Bölümü. In most contexts, it remains a morphological form of bölüm rather than a distinct lexical item.

See also

- Bölüm

- Bölüm başlığı

- Turkish possessive suffixes