"Rengarenk bir kaplumbağa."

Translation: A colorful turtle.

[Momo.Reza]

Rangarenk is persian word. Rang means color and it is rango va rang and the combination is rangarang and in turkey it is rangarenk

[evelyn-miriam]

That is very interesting, I like that explaination. :)

[YanVoit]

Do U speak farsi? I ask, because farsi course is absent on duolingo . And I wish learn persian here(i havent found any good apps for learning this language).

[nicolas_jk]

How is rengarenk formed? I think I've only learned renkler/renkli so far (and can probably say renksiz?).

[LucBE]

Yes, I was wondering too. It is obviously renk + a + renk, with the first 'k' harmonized into 'g', but does it have a specific literal meaning in English? :-)

Or is the 'a' just a connecting vowel? I know there are languages where a word simply is doubled to express a superlative...

[AlexinNotTurkey]

Turkish is not a language like that (in fact, repetition is used to make adverbs sometimes). Apparently, this is a Farsi loan word :)

[Hakim747]

Yes. That's my native language. :D

"warna-warni" means colorful. This one is rhythmic repetition. :D

[RuthJohnston1]

Sometimes what looks like a simple phrase is translated as a statement about some 3rd party. Why cannot this one be "it is a colorful turtle"?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

It is a missing alternative. You should report it in the future :)

[RuthJohnston1]

I don't understand what you mean. Is there some corrections option? But I wouldn't have the confidence to report a missing option. Usually there's an explanation. Thanks for all the work you do, Alex.

[Faris_Khan]

Does "Bir kaplumbağa rengarenk." mean "A turtle is colourful"?

[BronwenJon6]

Does kaplumbaga mean both turtle and tortoise? Is there any way to differentiate?

[BronwenJon6]

Nm, I googled it! I just noticed I'd answered with "tortoise" to a kamplumbaga question and been marked correct, but according to Google translate tortoise is actually tosbaga.

[YanVoit]

I always paint my turtle to make it colorful))