gázel

Güzel is a Turkish adjective meaning "beautiful," "pretty," "handsome," or "nice." It describes someone or something with an attractive appearance or pleasing quality and is used for people, places, objects, events, and experiences. In everyday Turkish, it functions as a standard descriptive word and appears in many common phrases.

Grammatical use: as a predicative adjective, it often appears with the verb olmak ("to be"), as in Bu elbise güzel (This dress is beautiful). It also combines with nouns to form phrases such as güzel bir gün (a beautiful day). The word can be intensified with adverbs (çok güzel, daha güzel) and can be used in exclamations: Güzel! or Güzel, teşekkürler. Turkish does not inflect adjectives for degree, so comparisons are formed with daha and en: daha güzel, en güzel.

Etymology: Güzel is a native Turkish word from the Turkic language family. Its core meaning "beautiful" is shared across related languages, with cognates differing in form and spelling. The standard Turkish spelling uses the umlaut ü, reflecting vowel harmony.

Cultural usage: In Turkish culture and media, güzel is a common everyday descriptor used to praise people, places, and things, as well as in advertising and literature. It appears in idiomatic expressions and in personal names; in Turkish, Güzel can also be found as a surname.