Turkey

See also: turkey

English

Wikivoyage

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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

Proper noun

Turkey

2. A country located in Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara

   Synonyms: (official, rare) Türkiye, (rare) Turkiye, Republic of Turkey

3. (historical, now sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.

Derived terms

• Turkey blue
• Turkey carpet
• Turkey color
• 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: تُرْکی (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) (Tʻurkʻia)
• Aromanian: Turchii f (indefinite), Turchia f (definite)
• Assamese: তুৰস্ক (turosko)
• Asturian: Turquía (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Türkiyə (az)
• Bashkir: Төркиә (Törkiə)
• 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)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Ту́рція f (Túrcija)
• Catalan: Turquia (ca) f
• Cebuano: Turkiya
• Chechen: Туркойчоь (Turkojčö), Турци (Turci)
• Cherokee: ᎬᏂᏱ (gvniyi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 土耳其 (tou² ji⁵ kei⁴)

  Hokkien: 土耳其 (Thó͘-nī-kî)

  Mandarin: 土耳其 (zh) (Tǔ'ěrqí)

• Crimean Tatar: Türkiye
• Czech: Turecko (cs) n
• Danish: Tyrkiet (da) n
• Dhivehi: ތުރުކީވިލާތް (dv) (turukīvilāt̊), ތުރުކީ (turukī)
• Dutch: Turkije (nl) n
• Dzongkha: བྱའི་རིགས་ཅིག (bya'i rigs cig)
• Emilian: Turchî
• Esperanto: Turkio, Turkujo
• Estonian: Türgi (et)
• Ewe: Turkey
• Farefare: Turko, Turgo
• 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) f (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), तुर्किया m (turkiyā)
• 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 (kk) (Türkiä)
• Khmer: តួកគី (km) (tuəkkii)
• Kikuyu: Turkey
• Korean: 튀르키예 (ko) (Twireukiye), 터키 (ko) (Teoki), 뛰르끼예 (ko) (Ttwireukkiye) (North Korea)
• Krymchak: Тӱркийа
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تورکیا (ckb) (turkya)

  Northern Kurdish: Tirkiye (ku)

• Kven: Turkki
• Kyrgyz: Түркия (ky) (Türkiya)
• Ladino: Turkia
• Lao: ຕວກກີ (lo) (tūak kī)
• Latin: Turcia (la)
• Latvian: Turcija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Turkija (lt) f
• Luhya: Taki
• Luo: Turkey
• Macedonian: Турција (mk) f (Turcija)
• Malay: Turki (ms)
• Malayalam: തുർക്കി (ml) (tuṟkki)
• Maltese: it-Turkija f
• 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 (türk)

• 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) n

  Nynorsk: Tyrkia (nn) n

• Occitan: Turquia (oc) f
• Odia: ତୁର୍କୀ (or) (turki)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Тѷрци f (Tü̏rci)

• Old Norse: Tyrkland n
• Ossetian: Турк (Turk)
• Ottoman Turkish: تركیه (Türkiye), تركیا (Türkiyâ)
• Pashto: ترکيه (ps) f (torkya)
• Pennsylvania German: Turkie
• Persian: تُرْکِیِه (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)
• 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 f

  Upper Sorbian: Turkowska f

• Spanish: Turquía (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: Torkukondre
• Swahili: Uturuki class 11, Uturuki
• Swedish: Turkiet (sv) n
• Tagalog: Turkiya
• Tajik: Туркия (tg) (Turkiya)
• Tamil: துருக்கி (ta) (turukki)
• Tatar: Төркия (Törkiyä)
• Telugu: టర్కీ (te) (ṭarkī)
• Thai: ตุรกี (th) (dtù-rá-gii), (ancient) หรุ่มโต้ระกี่, ทูร์เคีย (th) (tuu-kiia)
• Tibetan: ཏུར་ཀི (tur ki)
• Tigrinya: ቱርኪ (turki)
• Turkish: Türkiye (tr)
• Turkmen: Türkiýe (tk)
• Udmurt: Турция (Turcija)
• Ukrainian: Туре́ччина (uk) f (Turéččyna)
• Urdu: تُرْکِیَہ m (turkiya), تُرْکِیے m (turkiye), تُرْکی (ur) m (turkī) (phono-semantic matching from English), تُرْکِسْتان 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 (cy)
• West Frisian: Turkije (fy)
• Wolof: Tirki
• Yakut: Туурсуйа (Tuursuya), Түркийэ (Türkiye)
• Yiddish: טערקײַ f (terkay)
• Yoruba: Tọ́kì
• Zazaki: Tırkiya (diq) (Southern Zazaki)
• Zhuang: Dujwjgiz

Noun

Turkey (uncountable)

1. Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
2. (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).

Adjective

Turkey (uncountable)

1. Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).
2. (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; 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
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia (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