تركی

See also: تركي and ترکی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *terkü (“saddle strap”).

Noun

تركی • (terki)

1. saddle straps, game straps, anything strapped to the back of a saddle to carry packages or dead games

Derived terms

• تركی باغی (terki bağı, “cloak-strap behind a saddle”)
• تركی هكبه‌سی (terki heybesi, “haversack”)
• تركی یری (terki yeri, “place behind a saddle”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: terki

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “terki1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4755
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تركی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 153a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تركی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 364
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corrigiæ ephippii”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 292
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تركی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1159
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “terki”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تركی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 537

Etymology 2

From ترك (türk, “Turk”) +‎ ـی (-î, nisba suffix).

Adjective

تركی • (türkî)

1. Turkic, Turk, of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages

Derived terms

• تركیجه (türkice, “according to to Turkic custom”)
• لسان تركی (lisan türkî, “Turkic language”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: Türki

Proper noun

تركی • (türkî)

1. Turkic, the large language family spoken by Turkic people

   جغتای تركیسی ― Cağatay Türkîsi ― Chaghatay Turkic

2. Turk, a person or speaker of the various Turkic languages

Descendants

• Turkish: Türki

Noun

تركی • (türkî or türkü)

1. folk song, a song, especially a Turkish one, originating among common people and handed down by oral tradition

Derived terms

• تركی باغلامق (türkü bağlamak, “to sing a song”)
• تركی سویلمك (türkü söylemek, “to sing a song”)
• تركی چاغرمق (türkü çağırmak, “to sing a song”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: türkü

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “türkü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4947
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تركی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 153a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تركی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 364
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cantio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[8], Vienna, column 144
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تركی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 1160
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “türkü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تركی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 537