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Pirinçci
Pirinçci () is a Turkish surname. It is derived from the Turkish noun of Persian origin pirinç (cf. fa, برنج (berenj)) with the meaning "rice" by adding the Turkish agentive suffix -ci and originally denoted a person either growing rice or trading in this agricultural commodity. Notable people with the surname include: * Akif Pirinçci (born 1959), Turkish-born German writer * Burcu Pirinçci Burcu Pirinçci, aka Burcu Dindar, (born February 8, 1990) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for İzmir BB GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the center b ... (born 1990), Turkish female handballer References {{surname, Pirinçci Turkish-language surnames Occupational surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akif Pirinçci
Akif Pirinçci (; born 20 October 1959) is a Turkish-born German writer who is best known internationally for his novel ''Felidae''. Biography Pirinçci was born on 20 October 1959 in Istanbul, Turkey, but emigrated to Germany together with his parents in 1969. He began to write fiction at a young age, and published his first novel ''Tränen sind immer das Ende'' ("tears are always the end") in 1980, at the age of 21. His next literary work, published in 1989, was the novel ''Felidae'', a work of crime fiction with cats as the main protagonists. The novel has been translated into 17 languages and became an international bestseller. Due to the success of the novel, Pirinçci expanded his concept of "''cat crime fiction''" and published several sequels to ''Felidae'', out of which ''Felidae II'' and ''Felidae V (Salve Roma!)'' have been translated into English. An animated movie based on ''Felidae'', the script of which had been co-written by Pirinçci, was produced in Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burcu Pirinçci
Burcu Pirinçci, aka Burcu Dindar, (born February 8, 1990) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for İzmir BB GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the center back position. In 2013, Burcu Pirinçci married Hasan Dindar, a goalkeeper of the Yeni Bornovaspor football team. She played for Anadolu University SK from 2005 to 2008 before she transferred to İzmir BB GSK. She took part in the Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cups ( 2005–06, 2011–12 and 2012–13), Women's EHF Cup ( 2006–07, 2009–10 and 2010–11) as well as Women's EHF Challenge Cup The Women's EHF European Cup is an annual team handball competition for women's clubs of Europe. It was known as the EHF City Cup until the 1999–2000 season and the EHF Challenge Cup until the 2019–20 season. It is currently the third-tier com ... ( 2007–08, 2008–09, 2014–15 and 2015–16). References 1990 births People from Turg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Languages
The Turkic languages are a language family of over 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and Western Asia. The Turkic languages originated in a region of East Asia spanning from Mongolia to Northwest China, where Proto-Turkic is thought to have been spoken, from where they expanded to Central Asia and farther west during the first millennium. They are characterized as a dialect continuum. Turkic languages are spoken by some 200 million people. The Turkic language with the greatest number of speakers is Turkish, spoken mainly in Anatolia and the Balkans; its native speakers account for about 38% of all Turkic speakers. Characteristic features such as vowel harmony, agglutination, subject-object-verb order, and lack of grammatical gender, are almost universal within the Turkic family. There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility, upon moderate exposure, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Name
A Turkish name consists of an ''ad'' or an ''isim'' (given name; plural ''adlar'' and ''isimler'') and a ''soyadı'' or ''soyisim'' (surname). Turkish names exist in a "full name" format. While there is only one ''soyadı'' (surname) in the full name there may be more than one ''ad'' (given name). Married women may carry both their maiden and husband's surnames. The ''soyadı'' is written as the last element of the full name, after all given names (except that official documents related to registration matters often use the format "Soyadı, Adı"). Given names At least one name, often two but very rarely more, are given to a person at birth. Newly given names are allowed up to three words. Most names are gender-specific: Oğuz (name), Oğuz is strictly for males, Tuğçe only for females. But many Turkish names are unisex names, unisex. Many modern given names (such as Deniz (given name), Deniz, "sea"; or Ülkü, "ideal") are given to newborns of either sex. Among the common exam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown in West Africa around 3,000 years ago. In agriculture, it has largely been replaced by higher-yielding Asian r ...'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera ''Zizania (genus), Zizania'' and ''Porteresia'', both wild and domesticated, although the term may also be used for primitive or uncultivated varieties of ''Oryza''. As a cereal, cereal grain, domesticated rice is the most widely consumed staple food for over half of the world's World population, human population,Abstract, "Rice feeds more than half the world's population." especially in Asia and Africa. It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest worldwide production, after sugarcane and maize. Since sizable portions of sugarcane and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
