Turkmenistan

See also: Turkmenistán, Turkménistan, Túrkmenistan, and Türkmenistan

Emblem of Turkmenistan

English

Map of Turkmenistan

Alternative forms

• Türkmenistan

Etymology

From Turkmen Türkmenistan, from Türkmen (“Turk-like; Turkmen”) + Persian ـستان‎ (-estān, “-stan”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌtɜːkmɛn.ɪˈstɑːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɚkˈmɛn.ɪ.stæn/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Turkmenistan

2. A country in Central Asia. Capital: Ashgabat.

Related terms

• Turkmen
• Turkmen SSR

Translations

Central Asian country

• Afrikaans: Turkmenistan
• Albanian: Turkmenistan m
• Amharic: ቱርክመኒስታን (turkəmänistan)
• Arabic: تُرْكُمَانِسْتَان‎ f (turkumānistān)
• Armenian: Թուրքմենստան (Tʿurkʿmenstan)
• Asturian: Turkmenistán (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Türkmənistan (az)

  Cyrillic: Түркмәнистан

• Bashkir: Төрөкмәнстан (Törökmänstan)
• Basque: Turkmenistan (eu)
• Belarusian: Туркменіста́н m (Turkmjenistán), Туркме́нія f (Turkmjénija)
• Bengali: তুর্কমেনিস্তান (bn) (turkmeniśtan)
• Breton: Turkmenistan
• Bulgarian: Туркмениста́н (bg) m (Turkmenistán)
• Burmese: တာ့ခ်မင်နစ္စတန် (tahk.mangnacca.tan)
• Catalan: Turkmenistan (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土庫曼斯坦 (zh), 土库曼斯坦 (zh) (Tǔkùmànsītǎn)

• Czech: Turkmenistán (cs) m
• Danish: Turkmenistan
• Dhivehi: ތުރުކުމެނިސްތާން‎ (turukumenistān̊)
• Dutch: Turkmenistan (nl)
• Esperanto: Turkmenio, Turkmenistano, Turkmenujo
• Estonian: Türkmenistan (et)
• Faroese: Turkmenistan n
• Finnish: Turkmenistan (fi)
• French: Turkménistan (fr) m
• Georgian: თურქმენეთი (ka) (turkmeneti)
• German: Turkmenistan (de) n, Turkmenien n
• Greek: Τουρκμενιστάν (el) n (Tourkmenistán)
• Gujarati: તુર્કમેનિસ્તાન (turkamenistān)
• Hausa: Turkmenistan
• Hawaiian: Tukemenikana
• Hebrew: טוּרְקְמֶנִיסְטָן‎ m (turkmenistan)
• Hindi: तुर्कमेनिस्तान (hi) m (turkamenistān)
• Hungarian: Türkmenisztán (hu)
• Icelandic: Túrkmenistan (is)
• Indonesian: Turkmenistan (id)
• Interlingua: Turkmenistan
• Irish: An Tuircméanastáin f
• Italian: Turkmenistan (it)
• Japanese: トルクメニスタン (ja) (Torukumenisutan)
• Kamba: Tukimenistani
• Kannada: ತುರ್ಕ್‍ಮೇನಿಸ್ತಾನ್ (turk‍mēnistān)
• Kazakh: Түрікменстан (Türıkmenstan)
• Khmer: តួរមិនីស្ថាន (tuəminiisthaan)
• Korean: 투르크메니스탄 (ko) (Tureukeumeniseutan), 뚜르크매니스딴 (Ttureukeumaeniseuttan) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Tirkmenistan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Түркмөнстан (ky) (Türkmönstan)
• Lao: ຕວກເມນິດສະຖານ (lo) (tūak mē nit sa thān)
• Latvian: Turkmenistāna m

• Lithuanian: Turkmėnija (lt) f, Turkmėnistanas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Туркмениста́н m (Turkmenistán)
• Malay: Turkmenistan (ms)
• Malayalam: തുര്ക്ക്മെനിസ്ഥാന് (turkkmenisthānŭ)
• Maltese: it-Turkmenistan (mt)
• Maori: Tukumanatānga (mi)
• Marathi: तुर्कमेनिस्तान (turkamenistān)
• Mazanderani: تورکمنستون‎
• Mingrelian: თურქმენეთი (turkmeneti)
• Mongolian: Туркменистан (Turkmyönistan)
• Navajo: Naashchʼąąʼ Bidiyogíihnii Bikéyah
• Norman: Turkmenistan m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Turkmenistan (no)

  Nynorsk: Turkmenistan (nn)

• Pashto: ترکمنستان‎ m (torkmanestãn)
• Persian: ترکمنستان‎ (torkamanestân)
• Polish: Turkmenistan (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Turquemenistão (pt) m (Portugal), Turcomenistão (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: Turkmenistan (ro) n
• Romansch: Turcmenia f
• Russian: Туркмениста́н (ru) m (Turkmenistán), Туркме́ния (ru) f (Turkménija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Туркменистан m

  Roman: Turkmenistan m

• Sinhalese: ටර්‍ක්‍මෙනිස්‍තානය (ṭarkmenistānaya)
• Slovak: Turkmenistan m, Turkménsko n
• Slovene: Turkmenistan (sl) m
• Spanish: Turkmenistán (es) m
• Swahili: Turukimenistani (sw), Uturukimeni
• Swedish: Turkmenistan (sv)
• Tagalog: Turkmenistan
• Tajik: Туркманистон (Turkmaniston)
• Tamil: துருக்மெனிஸ்தான் (turukmeṉistāṉ), துர்க்மெனிஸ்தான் (turkmeṉistāṉ)
• Tatar: Төрекмәнстан (Törekmänstan)
• Telugu: తుర్క్‌మెనిస్తాన్ (te) (turk‌menistān)
• Thai: เติร์กเมนิสถาน (th) (dtə́ək-mee-nís-tǎan)
• Tibetan: ཏུརཀ་མེ་ནི་སུཏན (turk me ni sutn)
• Turkish: Türkmenistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Türkmenistan (tk)

  Cyrillic: Түркменистан

• Ukrainian: Туркменіста́н (uk) m (Turkmenistán), Туркме́нія f (Turkménija)
• Urdu: ترکمانستان‎ m (turkamenistān)
• Uyghur: تۈركمەنىستان‎ (türkmenistan)
• Uzbek: Turkmaniston (uz)

  Cyrillic: Туркманистон (Turkmaniston)

• Vietnamese: Tuốc-mê-ni-xtan
• Welsh: Twrcmenistan
• Yiddish: טורקמעניסטאַן‎ (turkmenistan)
• Yoruba: Tọọkimenisita

See also

• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
• Countries of the world

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /tuɾɡ.mə.nisˈtan/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /turɡ.mə.nisˈtan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tuɾɡ.me.nisˈtan/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Turkmenistan m

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

Related terms

• turcman

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Danish

Proper noun

Turkmenistan m

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Turkmenistan n

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

Related terms

• Turkmeen
• Turkmeens

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Faroese

Etymology

From Turkmen Türkmenistan, possibly via Russian Туркмениста́н (Turkmenistán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰʊɹ̥kˈmeːnɪstan/

Proper noun

Turkmenistan n

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

   í úr Turkmenistani ― in / from Turkmenistan

   til Turkmenistans ― to Turkmenistan

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Turkmenistan
Accusative	Turkmenistan
Dative	Turkmenistani
Genitive	Turkmenistans

Derived terms

• turkmenskur

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Finnish

Proper noun

Turkmenistan

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

Declension

Inflection of Turkmenistan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Turkmenistan	—
genitive		Turkmenistanin	—
partitive		Turkmenistania	—
illative		Turkmenistaniin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Turkmenistan	—
accusative	nom.	Turkmenistan	—
	gen.	Turkmenistanin
genitive		Turkmenistanin	—
partitive		Turkmenistania	—
inessive		Turkmenistanissa	—
elative		Turkmenistanista	—
illative		Turkmenistaniin	—
adessive		Turkmenistanilla	—
ablative		Turkmenistanilta	—
allative		Turkmenistanille	—
essive		Turkmenistanina	—
translative		Turkmenistaniksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Turkmenistanitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Turkmenistan (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Turkmenistanini	Turkmenistanimme
2nd person	Turkmenistanisi	Turkmenistaninne
3rd person	Turkmenistaninsa

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʊʁkˈmeːnɪstaːn/, /tʊʁkˈmeːnɪstan/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Turkmenistan n (proper noun, genitive Turkmenistans or (optionally with an article) Turkmenistan)

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Turkmenistan

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

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Italian

Proper noun

Turkmenistan m

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

Derived terms

• turkmeno

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Turkmenistan

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

Related terms

• turkmener
• turkmensk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Turkmenistan

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

Related terms

• turkmen, turkmenar
• turkmensk

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Polish

Etymology

Ultimately from Turkmen Türkmenistan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tur.kmɛˈɲis.tan/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -istan
• Syllabification: Tur‧kme‧nis‧tan

Proper noun

Turkmenistan m inan

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

Declension

Declension of Turkmenistan

	singular
nominative	Turkmenistan
genitive	Turkmenistanu
dative	Turkmenistanowi
accusative	Turkmenistan
instrumental	Turkmenistanem
locative	Turkmenistanie
vocative	Turkmenistanie

Derived terms

adjective

• turkmeński

 

nouns

• Turkmen
• turkmeński
• Turkmenka

 

Further reading

• Turkmenistan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Turkmenistan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Turkmenistan m

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Turkmenistan m (Cyrillic spelling Туркменистан)

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

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Swedish

Proper noun

Turkmenistan n (genitive Turkmenistans)

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)

Related terms

• turkmen
• turkmenisk
• turkmeniska
• turkmenistanier
• turkmenistanska
• turkmensk
• turkmenska

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Turkmenistán (“Turkmenistan”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Turk‧me‧nis‧tan
• IPA^(key): /tuɾkmenisˈtan/, [tʊɾkmenɪsˈtan]
• IPA^(key): /tuɾˈkmenistan/, [tʊɾˈkmenɪstɐn]

Proper noun

Turkmenistán or Turkménistan

1. Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia; capital: Ashgabat)