ترکیه

See also: تركية, تركیه, and ترکیہ

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُرْكِيَّة (turkiyya, “Turkey”). By surface analysis, ترک (turk / tork) +‎ ـیه (-iyya / -iye).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /tur.kij.ˈja/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰʊɾ.kʰi.já]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰʊɾ.kʰi.já]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰʊɾ.kʰi.já]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰuɾ.kʰi.já]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰoɹ.kʰʲi.jé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰuɾ.kʰi.já]

Readings
Classical reading?	turkiyya
Dari reading?	turkiya
Iranian reading?	torkiye
Tajik reading?	turkiya

Proper noun

ترکیه • (turkiyya / torkiye) (Tajik spelling Туркия)

1. Turkey (a country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia)

Derived terms

• جمهوری ترکیه (jumhūrī-yi turkiyya / jomhuri-ye torkiye)

Descendants

• Dari: تُرْکِیَه (turkiya)
• Iranian Persian: تُرْکِیِه (torkiye)
• Tajik: Туркия (Turkiya)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तुर्किया (turkiyā)

  Urdu: تُرْکِیَہ (turkiya)

• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi script: تُرْکِیَہ (turkiyah)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “ترکیه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim