Turkey

See also: turkey

English

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Etymology

From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Persian ترک‎ (tork), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /Turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜‎ (t²ür²k̥).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.ki/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.ki/

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• Homophone: turkey
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki

Proper noun

Turkey

2. A country at the intersection of Europe and Asia on the Mediterranean. Official name: Republic of Türkiye

   Synonyms: (official, rare) Türkiye, (rare) Turkiye

Derived terms

• Turkey carpet
• Turkey merchant
• Turkey oak
• Turkey oilstone
• Turkey red
• Turkey sponge
• Turkey stone
• Turkish

 

Related terms

• turkey

Descendants

• → Hindi: तुर्की (turkī) (phono-semantic matching)
• → Korean: 터키 (Teoki)
• → Manx: Turkee
• → Urdu: ترکی‎ (turkī) (phono-semantic matching)

Translations

country at intersection of Europe and Asia

• Abkhaz: Ҭырқтәыла (Tərktʷʼəla), Ҭырқәтәыла (Tərkʷtʷʼəla)
• Acehnese: Tureuki
• Adyghe: Тыркуе (Tərkʷuje)
• Afrikaans: Turkye
• Akan: Turki
• Albanian: Turqi f (indefinite), Turqia (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ቱርክ (turk)
• Arabic: تُرْكِيَا‎ (ar) f (turkiyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: تُرْكِيا‎ f (turkiya)

• Aragonese: Turquía f
• Aramaic: ܛܘܪܩܝܐ‎

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܘܼܪܟܝܼܵܐ‎ (ṭurkiya)

• Armenian: Թուրքիա (hy) (Tʿurkʿia)
• Aromanian: Turchii f (indefinite), Turchia f (definite)
• Assamese: তুৰস্ক (turosko)
• Asturian: Turquía (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Türkiyə (az)
• Bashkir: Төркиә (Törkiä)
• Basque: Turkia (eu)
• Bavarian: Tiakei
• Belarusian: Ту́рцыя f (Túrcyja), Турэ́ччына f (Turéččyna)
• Bengali: তুরস্ক (bn) (turôśkô)
• Bikol Central: Turkiya
• Bislama: Turkey
• Breton: Turkia (br)
• Bulgarian: Ту́рция (bg) f (Túrcija)
• Burmese: တူရကီ (tura.ki)
• Buryat: Түрэг (Türeg)
• Catalan: Turquia (ca) f
• Cebuano: Turkiya
• Chechen: Туркойчоь (Turkojčö), Турци (Turci)
• Cherokee: ᎬᏂᏱ (gvniyi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 土耳其 (tou² yi⁵ kei⁴)

  Mandarin: 土耳其 (zh) (Tǔ'ěrqí)

  Min Nan: 土耳其 (Thó͘-nī-kî)

• Crimean Tatar: Türkiye
• Czech: Turecko (cs) n
• Danish: Tyrkiet (da) n
• Dhivehi: ތުރުކީވިލާތް‎ (dv) (turukīvilāt̊), ތުރުކީ‎ (turukī)
• Dutch: Turkije (nl)
• Dzongkha: བྱའི་རིགས་ཅིག (bya'i rigs cig)
• Emilian: Turchî
• Esperanto: Turkio, Turkujo
• Estonian: Türgi (et)
• Ewe: Turkey
• Faroese: Turkaland n
• Fiji Hindi: Turkey
• Finnish: Turkki (fi)
• French: Turquie (fr) f

  Middle French: Turquie

• Galician: Turquía (gl) f
• Georgian: თურქეთი (ka) (turketi)
• German: Türkei (de) f

  Alemannic German: Tirkei f

• Greek: Τουρκία (el) n (Tourkía)

  Ancient Greek: Τουρκία (Tourkía)

• Guaraní: Tuykia
• Gujarati: તુર્કસ્તાન (turkastān)
• Hausa: Turkiyya
• Hawaiian: Kuleke
• Hebrew: טוּרְקְיָה‎ (he) f (túrkya), תּוּרְכְּיָה‎ f (túrkya)
• Hindi: तुर्की (hi) m (turkī), रूम (hi) m (rūm) (historical)
• Hungarian: Törökország (hu)
• Icelandic: Tyrkland (is) n
• Ido: Turkia (io)
• Indonesian: Turki (id)
• Interlingua: Turchia
• Irish: An Tuirc f
• Istriot: Turcheîa
• Italian: Turchia (it) f
• Japanese: トルコ (ja) (Toruko) (土耳古 (ja))
• Kabardian: Тыркуей (Tərkʷujej)
• Kalenjin: Turkey
• Kamba: Turkey
• Kannada: ಟರ್ಕಿ (kn) (ṭarki), ತುರುಕ (kn) (turuka)
• Karakalpak: Túrkiya
• Kashubian: Tëreckô n
• Kazakh: Түркия (Türkiä)
• Khmer: តួកគី (km) (tuəkkii)
• Kikuyu: Turkey
• Korean: 터키 (ko) (Teoki), 튀르키예 (ko) (Twireukiye), 뛰르끼예 (ko) (Ttwireukkiye) (North Korea)
• Krymchak: Тӱркийа
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تورکیا‎ (ku) (turkya)

  Northern Kurdish: Tirkiye (ku)

• Kven: Turkki
• Kyrgyz: Түркия (ky) (Türkiya)
• Ladino: Turkia
• Lao: ຕວກກີ (lo) (tūak kī)
• Latin: Turcia (la)
• Latvian: Turcija f
• Lithuanian: Turkija (lt) f
• Luhya: Taki
• Luo: Turkey
• Macedonian: Турција (mk) f (Turcija)
• Malay: Turki (ms)
• Malayalam: തുർക്കി (ml) (tuṟkki)
• Maltese: it-Turkija
• Manchu: ᡨᡠ᠋ᡵᡳᠶ᠋ᡝᠰᠺᠣ (turiyesk'o)
• Manx: Yn Turkee f
• Maori: Tākei, Tāke
• Marathi: तुर्कस्तान m (turkastān)
• Meru: Turkey
• Mingrelian: თურქეთი (turketi)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Турк (mn) (Turk)

  Mongolian: ᠲᠦᠷᠻ (türkh)

• Navajo: Bichʼah Łichíiʼii Bikéyah
• Nepali: टर्की (ṭarkī)
• Norman: Turqùie f (continental Normandy), Turquie f (Guernsey), Turtchie f (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: Durka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tyrkia (no)

  Nynorsk: Tyrkia (nn)

• Occitan: Turquia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Тѷрци (Tü̏rci)

• Old Norse: Tyrkland n
• Oriya: ତୁର୍କୀ (or) (turki)
• Ossetian: Турк (Turk)
• Ottoman Turkish: تركیه‎ (Türkiye), تركیا‎ (Türkiyâ)
• Pashto: ترکيه‎ (ps) f (torkyá)
• Pennsylvania German: Turkie
• Persian: ترکیه‎ (fa) (torkiye)
• Polish: Turcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Turquia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਤੁਰਕੀ (turkī)
• Quechua: Turkiya
• Rarotongan: Tūreka
• Romagnol: Turchî
• Romanian: Turcia (ro) f
• Romansch: Tirchia f
• Russian: Ту́рция (ru) f (Túrcija)
• Rusyn: Ту́рція f (Túrcija)
• Samogitian: Torkėjė f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ту̀рска̄ f

  Roman: Tùrskā (sh) f

• Sicilian: Turchìa f
• Silesian: Turcyjo f
• Sinhalese: තුර්‍කිය (turkiya), තුර්කිය (turkiya)
• Slovak: Turecko (sk) n
• Slovene: Túrčija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Turkojska

  Upper Sorbian: Turkowska f

• Spanish: Turquía (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: Torkukondre
• Swahili: Uturuki class 11, Uturuki
• Swedish: Turkiet (sv)
• Tagalog: Turkiya
• Tajik: Туркия (tg) (Turkiya)
• Tamil: துருக்கி (ta) (turukki)
• Tatar: Төркия (Törkiya)
• Telugu: టర్కీ (te) (ṭarkī)
• Thai: ตุรกี (th) (dtù-rá-gii), (ancient) หรุ่มโต้ระกี่
• Tibetan: ཏུར་ཀི (tur ki)
• Tigrinya: ቱርኪ (turki)
• Turkish: Türkiye (tr)
• Turkmen: Türkiýe (tk)
• Udmurt: Турция (Turcija)
• Ukrainian: Туре́ччина (uk) f (Turéččyna)
• Urdu: ترکیہ‎ m (turkīya/turkīye), ترکیے‎ (turkīye), ترکی‎ (ur) m (turkī) (phono-semantic matching from English), ترکستان‎ m (turkistān) (rare, dated)
• Uyghur: تۈركىيە‎ (türkiye)
• Uzbek: Turkiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ (vi) (土耳其), Thổ Nhĩ Kì (rare)
• Volapük: Türkän (vo)
• Walloon: Turkeye
• Waray-Waray: Turkeya
• Welsh: Twrci
• West Frisian: Turkije (fy)
• Wolof: Tirki
• Yakut: Туурсуйа (Tuursuya), Түркийэ (Türkiye)
• Yiddish: טערקײַ‎ f (terkay)
• Yoruba: Tọ́kì
• Zazaki: Tırkiya (diq) (Southern Zazaki)
• Zhuang: Dujwjgiz

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City