Turkey

See also: turkey

English

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Etymology

From Middle English Turkye, which is borrowed from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Persian ترک (Turk), from Middle Persian [Term?] (twlk' /⁠Turk⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.ki/
• 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 Turkey

   Synonym: (rare) Turkiye, Türkiye

Derived terms

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

 

Descendants

• → Korean: 터키 (Teoki)
• → Manx: Turkee

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: تُرْكِيَّا (ar) f (turkiyyā)

  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)
• 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)
• 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
• Greek: Τουρκία (el) n (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)
• 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: Tu'rkiya
• Kashubian: Tëreckô n
• Kazakh: Түркия (Türkiä)
• Khmer: តួកគី (km) (tuəkkii)
• Kikuyu: Turkey
• Korean:

  North: 뛰르끼예 (ko) (ttwireukkiye)

  South: 터키 (ko) (Teoki)

• Krymchak: Тӱркийа
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تورکیا (ckb) (turkya)

  Northern Kurdish: Tirkiye (ku)

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• Kven: Turkki
• Kyrgyz: Түркия (ky) (Türkiya)
• 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: Турк (mn) (Turk)
• Navajo: Tʼóok bikéyah
• Nepali: टर्की (ṭarkī)
• Norman: Turqùie f (continental Normandy), Turquie f (Guernsey), Turtchie f (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: Durka
• Norwegian: Tyrkia (no)
• Occitan: Turquia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic: Тѷрци (Tü̏rci)
• Old English: Tyrcland
• Old Norse: Tyrkland n
• Oriya: ତୁର୍କୀ (or) (turki)
• Ossetian: Турк (Turk)
• Ottoman Turkish: تركیه (Türkiye), تركیا (Türkiya)
• 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
• 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 (Törkiyä)
• 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: ترکی (ur) m (turkī)
• Uyghur: تۈركىيە (türkiye)
• Uzbek: Turkiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Thổ Nhĩ Kì (土耳其)
• Volapük: Türkän (vo)
• Waray-Waray: Turkeya
• Welsh: Twrci
• West Frisian: Turkije (fy)
• Wolof: Tirki
• Yakut: Туурсуйа (Tuursuya), Түркийэ (Türkiye)
• Yiddish: טערקײַ f (terkay)
• Yoruba: Túrkì
• 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, 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