Multilingual Palindrome Squares

Four Turkish 5×5 palindromic word squares, similar to the original Sator Square.
The words can be read across, down, and backwards while preserving the square's symmetry.
Some squares include one proper noun or invented name, like Arepo in the original Sator Square,
but only when it allows for a relatively strong grammatical reading.
When all five words are real words, somewhat looser grammar is allowed.

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Turkish Palindrome Squares

One proper noun or invented Arepo-style word allowed

Imaginative reading: In the recollection, Rapat cowers and worships your name

Possibly an original square; no prior online occurrence found

  • Rapat: Invented name
  • Anıda: In the recollection/memory
    • Locative singular of anı, “memory, recollection”
    • Source
  • Pısıp: Cowering/cowers and...
    • Converb from pısmak, "to cower"
    • Source
  • Adına: To your name
    • Second-person singular possessive + dative of ad, “name”: ad + -(ı)n, “your” + -a, “to”
    • Source
  • Tapar: Worships/adores
    • Third-person singular affirmative aorist of tapmak, “to worship/adore”
    • Source

No proper nouns

Imaginative reading: Who am I? An administrative position; a voluntary facial expression

Possibly an original square; no prior online occurrence found

  • Kimim: Who am I?
    • Interrogative pronoun + first-person singular predicative/copular ending: kim, “who” + im, “I am”
    • Source
  • İdari: Administrative
  • Makam: Position/post/office
  • İradi: Voluntary/intentional
  • Mimik: Facial expression

One proper noun or invented Arepo-style word allowed

Imaginative reading: Look, his bee is broken; let Nıkab bite

Possibly an original square; no prior online occurrence found

  • Bakın: Look
    • Second-person plural imperative of bakmak, “to look”
    • Source
  • Arısı: His/her bee
    • Third-person singular possessive of arı, “bee”
    • Source
  • Kırık: Broken
  • Isıra: May he/she/it bite
    • Third-person singular optative of ısırmak, “to bite”
    • Source
  • Nıkab: Invented name

No proper nouns

Imaginative reading: A book, to a god, [of] power, the people, and a slipper

Possibly an original square; no prior online occurrence found

  • Kitap: Book
  • İlaha: To a god
    • Dative singular of ilah, “god/deity”
    • Source
  • Takat: Power/strength
  • Ahali: People/populace
  • Patik: Slipper