Turkestan

English

Alternative forms

• Turkistan

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian ترکستان (Torkestân), from Middle Persian twlkstʾn' (Turkestān), from twlk' (Turk) + -stʾn' (-estān).

Proper noun

Turkestan

1. (historical) The regions of Central Asia lying between Siberia to the north; Tibet (Xizang) and Xinjiang, China, modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran to the south; the Gobi Desert to the east; and the Caspian Sea to the west.

Translations

a historical region in Asia

• Arabic: تُرْكِسْتَان m (turkistān)
• Armenian: Թուրքեստան (hy) (Tʻurkʻestan)
• Azerbaijani: Türküstan (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 突厥斯坦 (zh) (Tūjuésītǎn), 土耳其斯坦 (zh) (Tǔ'ěrqísītǎn)

• Finnish: Turkestan
• French: Turkestan (fr) m
• German: Turkestan (de) n
• Hebrew: טורקסטן m (turqistan)
• Hindi: तुर्केस्तान m (turkestān), तुर्किस्तान (hi) m (turkistān), तुरकिस्तान (hi) m (turkistān), तुर्कस्तान (hi) m (turkastān)
• Japanese: トルキスタン (Torukisutan)
• Kazakh: Түркістан (Türkıstan)
• Korean: 투르키스탄 (Tureukiseutan)
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• Kyrgyz: Түркстан (Türkstan)
• Marathi: तुर्केस्तान m (turkestān)
• Middle Persian: twlkstʾn' (Turkestān)
• Persian: ترکستان (fa) (torkestân)
• Portuguese: Turquestão (pt) m
• Russian: Туркеста́н (ru) m (Turkestán)
• Tajik: Туркистон (tg) (Turkiston)
• Turkish: Türkistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Türkestan
• Urdu: ترکستان m (turkestān)
• Uyghur: تۈركىستان (türkistan)
• Uzbek: Turkiston

See also

Former Russian Turkestan (before 1917 revolution):

• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Turkmenistan
• Tajikistan
• Uzbekistan

Former Chinese Turkestan:

• Tibet (Xizang)
• Xinjiang

Anagrams

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Proper noun

Turkestan c (genitive Turkestans)

1. (historical) Turkestan