Turushka

English

Noun

Turushka (plural Turushkas or Turushka)

1. (historical) A member of an ancient royal dynasty that once reigned in North India in the Kashmir, Kabulistan and Gandhara regions.
2. (India, obsolete) A Turk.

References

• (Turk): Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “Turushka”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].