Turkey
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See also: turkey
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian ترک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /Turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tˈɜːi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɝki/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio (General American): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Homophone: turkey
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
- Hyphenation: turk‧ey
Proper noun
[edit]Turkey
- A country located in eastern Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara
- Synonyms: (official, uncommon) Türkiye, (uncommon) Turkiye, Republic of Turkey
- (historical, now sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → 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
[edit]country at intersection of Europe and Asia
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Noun
[edit]Turkey (uncountable)
- Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
- (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).
Adjective
[edit]Turkey (uncountable)
- Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).
- (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).
See also
[edit]- 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) countries 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
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