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Kreb1907/turkish-proverbs-idioms

🇹🇷 Turkish Proverbs & Idioms / Türkçe Atasözleri ve Deyimler A hand-curated dataset of 100 Turkish proverbs (atasözleri) and idioms (deyimler) with their meanings in both Turkish and English, plus literal English translations that preserve the original imagery. El ile derlenmiş 50 atasözü ve 50 deyim; her kayıtta Türkçe açıklama, İngilizce açıklama ve birebir İngilizce çeviri bulunur. Columns Column Description id Unique row id text The proverb or… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kreb1907/turkish-proverbs-idioms.

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🇹🇷 Turkish Proverbs & Idioms / Türkçe Atasözleri ve Deyimler

A hand-curated dataset of 100 Turkish proverbs (atasözleri) and idioms (deyimler) with their meanings in both Turkish and English, plus literal English translations that preserve the original imagery.

El ile derlenmiş 50 atasözü ve 50 deyim; her kayıtta Türkçe açıklama, İngilizce açıklama ve birebir İngilizce çeviri bulunur.

Columns

ColumnDescription
idUnique row id
textThe proverb or idiom in Turkish
typeproverb (atasözü) or idiom (deyim)
meaning_trMeaning explained in Turkish
meaning_enMeaning explained in English
literal_enWord-for-word English translation

Example

texttypemeaning_enliteral_en
Damlaya damlaya göl olur.proverbSmall savings accumulate into something big over time.Drop by drop, a lake forms.
tereciye tere satmakidiomTo try to teach an expert their own trade.To sell cress to a cress-seller.

Use cases

  • —Language learning — study Turkish figurative language with dual explanations.
  • —LLM evaluation — test whether models understand non-literal Turkish (idiom comprehension is a classic failure mode for smaller models).
  • —Machine translation research — figurative expressions are among the hardest segments to translate; literal_en vs meaning_en makes the gap explicit.
  • —NLP tasks — proverb/idiom classification, meaning matching, paraphrase generation.

Quick start

python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("Kreb1907/turkish-proverbs-idioms", split="train")
print(ds[0])
# {'id': 1, 'text': 'Damlaya damlaya göl olur.', 'type': 'proverb', ...}

Curation notes

Entries were selected from widely known, everyday Turkish proverbs and idioms. Meanings follow common dictionary definitions (TDK-style explanations); English meanings favor natural equivalents (e.g. matching English proverbs) where they exist. Idioms are given in their citation (infinitive) form, proverbs as full sentences.

License

CC BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution.