sevgisi

Sevgisi is a Turkish noun formed by attaching the third-person possessive suffix -si to the noun sevgi, which means love or affection. The resulting form translates roughly as "his/her/its love" or, in context, as "the love of." It is used to indicate possession, as in Onun sevgisi (his/her love), Allah'ın sevgisi (God's love), or Çocuğun sevgisi (the child's love).

Grammatically, sevgisi functions as a possessive construction. The base word sevgi can take different possessive suffixes to indicate the speaker or subject, for example sevgim (my love) and sevgin (your love). Sevgisi itself signals a third-person possession and can combine with other suffixes to express related meanings, such as sevgisiyle (with his/her/its love) or sevgisi için (for the sake of his/her/its love).

In usage, sevgisi appears across Turkish literature, poetry, media, and everyday language to refer to the affection possessed by a person or entity. It can carry emotional nuance, ranging from familial affection to a more transcendent or religious sense when paired with divine or sacred subjects, as in Allah'ın sevgisi. The term is commonly contrasted with sevgi (the abstract concept of love) and with related terms such as aşk (romantic love) and şefkat (compassion), each conveying different shades of meaning.

See also: sevgi, aşk, şefkat.