Turkey
See also: turkey
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tˈɜːki/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɝki/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio (General American): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Homophone: turkey
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
- Hyphenation: turk‧ey
Proper noun
editTurkey
- A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in western Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.
- Synonyms: (official, uncommon) Türkiye, (uncommon) Turkiye, Republic of Turkey
- 2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN[1]:
- One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
- (historical, now sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Chinese: 土雞 / 土鸡 (tǔjī) (phono-semantic matching)
- → Hindi: तुर्की (turkī) (phono-semantic matching)
- → Korean: 터키 (Teoki)
- → Manx: Turkee
- → Urdu: تُرْکی (turkī) (phono-semantic matching)
Translations
editcountry at intersection of Europe and Asia
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Noun
editTurkey (uncountable)
- Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
- (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).
Adjective
editTurkey (uncountable)
- Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).
- (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).
See also
edit- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Cyprus
- East Timor
- Georgia
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic, Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Kosovo
- 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
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