Turkestan

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English

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Etymology

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From Persian ترکستان (torkestân), from Middle Persian twlkstʾn' (Turkestān), from twlk' (Turk) + -stʾn' (-estān).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌtɜː(ɹ)kɪˈstɑːn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌtɜɹkɪˈstæn/, /ˈtɜɹkɪˌstæn/

Proper noun

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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.
    • 1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 344:
      Men, women, and children were p'a-hsia (squatting, as a camel squats), to use the Gobi caravan phrase, without a tent among them, but sheltered by big rocks. A little fire was being jealously fed from the small store of fuel they had brought on their pack animals, and they gave us tea. They were gravely merry and pressed on us the courtesy of the good folk of Turkestan. Old men stroked their beards and youths waited on us and women fluttered about the rim of the circle to get a glimpse of the khanum, my wife.

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See also

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Former Russian Turkestan (before 1917 revolution):

Former Chinese Turkestan:

Further reading

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tyʁ.kɛs.tɑ̃/
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Proper noun

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Turkestan m

  1. Turkestan

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Swedish

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Proper noun

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Turkestan c (genitive Turkestans)

  1. (historical) Turkestan