çevir

Çevir is a Turkish verb form derived from the verb çevirmek, meaning to turn, rotate, or to translate. The base stem çevir- appears in various inflected forms; Çevir is most commonly encountered as the imperative form of çevirmek, used to tell someone to turn or flip something, depending on context.

In everyday Turkish, çevirmek has two primary senses. The first is physical: to turn or rotate an object, such as turning a knob, a page, or a handle. The second is linguistic: to translate a text from one language to another. In translation contexts, Turkish uses çeviri to denote the act or product of translation (for example, bir metnin çevirisi means the translation of a text). The agent who performs translation is a çevirmen (translator). Related forms include çeviri (translation), çevrim (turning or cycle in technical usage), and the verb forms derived from the same root, such as çevirmek with various persons and tenses.

Etymologically, çevir comes from Turkish verb families built on the root çev-, which conveys turning or changing direction, extended to the sense of rendering content into another language in modern Turkish. The word is widely used across Turkish-speaking regions and appears in literature, media, education, and everyday instruction. While çevir often appears as an imperative in colloquial speech, its precise meaning is typically clarified by the accompanying object, such as metni (text) or sayfayı (the page).

See also: çeviri, çevirmen, çevirmek.