çekime

Çekime is a Turkish noun form derived from çekim, commonly used to refer to filming or a shooting session. In everyday language and media contexts, the term denotes the act of capturing footage, the event of filming, or a particular shooting on a set.

Çekime is the dative form used with verbs or expressions that require a directional or referential complement. It appears in phrases such as çekime katılmak (to participate in the shoot), çekime hazırlanmak (to prepare for the shoot), and çekime gitmek (to go to the shoot). In production reporting, sentences like çekime bugün başlanacak (filming starts today) or çekimler hafta sonunda tamamlanacak (the shoots will be completed by the weekend) are common.

Beyond cinema, çekim has additional meanings in Turkish. It can refer to attraction or gravitation, as in çekim gücü (attractive force or gravitational pull). In linguistic terminology, çekim may denote inflection or conjugation, with çekim eki referring to an inflection suffix. The word’s diverse senses reflect Turkish’s rich use of çekim in both technical and everyday contexts.

Etymology and morphology: çekime comes from çekim, itself derived from çekmek (to pull, to draw) and extended metaphorically to “recording” or “capturing” an image. The form demonstrates Turkish agglutinative morphology, attaching the dative suffix -e to çekim.

See also: çekim, çekim eki, çekim gücü, film çekimi.