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Turkey

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Turkey

  2. A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.
    Synonyms: (official, uncommon) Türkiye, (uncommon) Turkiye, Republic of Turkey
    • 2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN‎[1]:
      One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
    • 2025 May 11, Imogen West-Knights, “‘I lost so much weight, my husband thought I was terminally ill’: why do people lie about taking Ozempic?”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.
  3. (historical, now sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Chinese: 土雞 / 土鸡 (tǔjī) (phono-semantic matching)
  • → Hindi: तुर्की (turkī) (phono-semantic matching)
  • → Korean: 터키 (Teoki)
  • → Manx: Turkee
  • → Urdu: تُرْکی (turkī) (phono-semantic matching)

Translations

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Noun

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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

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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

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countries in Asia (appendix)edit
countries in Europe (appendix)edit

See also

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  • Turkey Street (not etymologically related, not even to the bird!)
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