ekinler

Ekinler is a Turkish term that functions as the plural of ekin, referring to crops or cultivated plants grown for harvest. In agricultural usage, ekinler denotes the various crops produced on fields or in a region, including cereals, legumes, vegetables, and other farmed plants. The word is commonly found in farming discussions, crop reports, and rural writing to describe what has been planted, grown, or harvested.

Etymology and meaning

The singular ekin refers to cultivated crops or produce from farming activity. Ekinler, as the plural form, emphasizes multiple kinds or groups of crops rather than a single harvest. In Turkish, it can be used broadly to describe agricultural yields or more specifically to identify the crops grown on a particular field or during a growing season.

Usage

In everyday Turkish, ekinler appears in agricultural contexts, discourse about crop rotation, harvest forecasts, and rural life imagery. It can be used with demonstratives such as bu ekinler (these crops) or hasat dönemindeki ekinler (crops of the harvest season). The term may also appear in more literary or documentary writing to evoke agrarian life and the relationship between farmers and the land.

Other uses

Ekinler can be found as a surname in Turkey and may appear as a place name or toponym in some Turkic-speaking regions. In such cases, the meaning is derived from the agricultural sense of the root ekin, though the usage as a proper noun is distinct from its common noun function.

See also

Mahsul, ürün, hasat, tarım.