Burası cehennem gibi sıcak.

Burası means this place or here as the subject of the sentence.

It is related to bura, which means here/this place, and burası is the common form used when you mean this place as a thing:

• Burası güzel. = This place is nice.
• Burası çok kalabalık. = This place is very crowded.

So in your sentence, burası is basically the subject: this place / here.

This is a very common question.

• burası = this place / here as the subject
• burada = in this place / here as a location

So:

• Burası cehennem gibi sıcak. = This place is hellishly hot.
• Burada cehennem gibi sıcak. = It’s hellishly hot here.

Both are possible, but they are structured differently.

Think of it like this:

• burası answers what is hot? → this place
• burada answers where is it hot? → here

Gibi means like.

In this sentence, cehennem gibi means like hell or hellishly. It is being used to make a strong comparison:

• cehennem = hell
• gibi = like

So cehennem gibi sıcak literally means hot like hell.

This is a very natural Turkish way to intensify something.

Because Turkish often leaves out the verb to be in the present tense when the predicate is a noun or adjective, especially in the third person.

So:

• Burası sıcak. = This place is hot.
• Burası güzel. = This place is beautiful.

There is no separate word for is here.

But in other tenses, you do see something:

• Burası sıcaktı. = This place was hot.
• Burası sıcak olacak. = This place will be hot.

So the present-tense is is just understood.

Because Turkish usually puts the main predicate at the end of the sentence.

Here the structure is:

• Burası = subject
• cehennem gibi = comparison/intensifier
• sıcak = predicate adjective

So the sentence ends with the main idea: hot.

That final position is very normal in Turkish.

Yes, it is a common expression, especially in spoken Turkish.

It is strong and expressive, but not obscene. It sounds more like:

• emphatic
• vivid
• somewhat informal

It is similar in tone to saying hot as hell in English. So it is fine in everyday conversation, but in very formal situations you would probably choose something milder, like:

• çok sıcak = very hot
• aşırı sıcak = extremely hot

Yes, absolutely.

• Burası çok sıcak. = This place is very hot.
• Burası cehennem gibi sıcak. = This place is hot as hell / hellishly hot.

The difference is tone:

• çok sıcak = neutral, straightforward
• cehennem gibi sıcak = stronger, more dramatic, more expressive

So both are correct; the second one has more emotion.

Grammatically, gibi goes with cehennem:

• cehennem gibi = like hell

That whole phrase then describes sıcak.

So you can think of it as:

• [cehennem gibi] sıcak = hell-like hot / hot like hell

This is very common in Turkish: a noun + gibi phrase acts like a comparison before an adjective or verb.

For example:

• buz gibi soğuk = cold as ice
• çocuk gibi sevindi = rejoiced like a child

A little, yes, but the original order is the most neutral and natural.

The standard version is:

• Burası cehennem gibi sıcak.

You might also hear different word orders for emphasis, but they can sound more marked or dramatic. For a learner, the safest pattern is to keep the predicate at the end.

So this sentence is a very good model to follow.

You would add the past form to the adjective:

• Burası cehennem gibi sıcaktı. = This place was hot as hell.

Here:

• sıcak = hot
• -tı = was

This is useful because it shows clearly what was hidden in the present tense. In the present, Turkish says:

• Burası cehennem gibi sıcak.

But in the past, the copular ending appears:

• Burası cehennem gibi sıcaktı.

Mostly, yes. Sıcak primarily means hot/warm in terms of temperature.

In this sentence, it clearly refers to physical heat.

Turkish can also use sıcak in some extended senses, like a warm attitude or a warm color, but here it simply means the place is very hot.