Turkish
See also: Türkish
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Turk + -ishCategory:English terms suffixed with -ish#TURKISH. Doublet of turquoise.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɜː.kɪʃ/Category:English 2-syllable words#TURKISHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TURKISH
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɝ.kɪʃ/, [ˈtɚ.kɪʃ], [ˈtɐ˞.kɪʃ]Category:English 2-syllable words#TURKISHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TURKISH
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#TURKISHAudio (US): (file)
Proper noun
TurkishCategory:English lemmas#TURKISHCategory:English proper nouns#TURKISHCategory:English uncountable nouns#TURKISHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TURKISHCategory:Pages with entries#TURKISHCategory:Pages with 1 entry#TURKISH
- The official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus (alongside Greek) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
- Synonyms: Anatolian Turkic, Anatolian Turkish
- Synonym of Turkic.
- 2001, C. Edmund Bosworth, editor, A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001, page 97:
- This dictionary for Chaghatay Turkish (although it also contains much material for what the author calls 'Rūmī', i.e. south-western Turkish, above all, Ottoman) is the Sanglakh of an obscure eighteenth-century compilerCategory:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
- 2003, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Culture and Learning in Islam, page 256:
- M.A. Òerbak considers Chaghatay Turkish a period of Uzbek.Category:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
- 2011, Talat S. Halman, Jayne L. Warner, A Millennium of Turkish Literature, page 6:
- [...] these works include stories of the battles the Turks fought against the Chinese, a variety of legends, and numerous specimens of verse (found mostly in Chinese translation) written in Uyghur Turkish.Category:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
- 2011, Elif Batuman, The Possessed:
- And my uncle always shouted: “Uzbek Turkish is very close to our Turkish language!”Category:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
- 2022, Dominic Lieven, In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History:
- It was Navai who through his poetry almost single-handedly turned his native Chaghatay Turkish into a literary language.Category:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
Translations
official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Turkic
Adjective
Turkish (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#TURKISHCategory:English adjectives#TURKISHCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#TURKISHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TURKISHCategory:Pages with entries#TURKISHCategory:Pages with 1 entry#TURKISH
- Of, from, or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language.
- Synonyms: Anatolian Turkic, Anatolian Turkish
- 1896, Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg, Higher Lessons in English: A work on English Grammar and composition, 1st edition, Outlook Verlag GmbH, published 2023, →ISBN, page 557:
- When a question was asked, would put on a mysterious look. Shake his head. Smoke in silence. Observe, at length, he had doubts. Presided at the council, in state. Swayed a Turkish pipe instead of a scepter. Known to sit with eyes closed ... […]Category:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
- 2011 December 31, “Syrian opposition group: More than 5,800 died in 2011”, in CNN:
- The SNC has broad support, with a strong Sunni Muslim component and is backed by the Turkish government.Category:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
- Synonym of Turkic.
- 1962, Gerard Clauson, Turkish and Mongolian Studies, page 37:
- [...] in Mongolian and some Turkish languagesCategory:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
- 1982, András Róna-Tas, Chuvash Studies, page 119:
- Old Turkish began with the separation, formation and consolidation of the independent Turkish languages.Category:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
- 2007, László Károly, Turcology in Turkey: selected papers, page 458:
- This is openly a characteristics of Chaghatay and other Eastern Turkish languages and dialects.Category:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
- 2019, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Hammer and Anvil:
- In the Timurid empire, the Chaghatay Turkish language, which became the standard of the Timurid court, was part of the eastern branch of Turkic languages.Category:English terms with quotations#TURKISH
Synonyms
Translations
of, from or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language
Derived terms
- Anatolian Turkish
- Modern Turkish
- Old Anatolian Turkish
- Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish Angora
- Turkish bath
- Turkish bow
- Turkish bread
- Turkish carpet
- Turkish checkers
- Turkish coffee
- Turkish corsair
- Turkish crescent
- Turkish delight
- Turkish draughts
- Turkishly
- Turkishness
- Turkish pizza
- Turkish Republic
- Turkish Riviera
- Turkish rugging
- Turkish sage
- Turkish Star Wars
- Turkish teeth
- Turkish towel
- Turkish toweling
- Turkish towelling
- Turkish Van
- Turkish Vankedisi
Related terms
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Turkish terms
- Appendix:Turkish Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Turkish
Further reading
- Turkish - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
- ISO 639-1 code tr, ISO 639-3 code tur (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Turkish, tur
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