Turkey

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Turkey

Turkey

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Alternative forms

Türkiye
Turkiye (informal)

Etymology

From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Medieval Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ẅr²ẅk²). By surface analysis, Turke +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːki/
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(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝki/
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(New Zealand, Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtøːki/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌɾke/, /-kɪ/, /-ki/
(Dublin) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊːki/, /ˈtʊːɹki/
(Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈteːki/
(Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛːki/
Homophone: turkey
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
Hyphenation: turk‧ey

Proper noun

Turkey

A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.
Synonyms: (official, otherwise 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.
(historical) Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
A city in Hall County, Texas, United States.

Derived terms

Related terms

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Descendants

→ Chinese: 土雞 / 土鸡 (tǔjī) (phono-semantic matching)
→ Hindustani: (phono-semantic matching)
Hindi: तुर्की (turkī)

Urdu: تُرْکی (turkī)
→ Korean: 터키 (Teoki)
→ Manx: Turkee
→ Punjabi: (phono-semantic matching)
Gurmukhi script: ਤੁਰਕੀ (turkī)

Shahmukhi script: تُرْکی (turkī)

Translations

country at intersection of Europe and Asia

Abkhaz: Ҭырқәтәыла (Tərkʷtʷʼəla), Ҭырқәтәыла (Tərkʷtʷʼəla)
Acehnese: Tureuki
Afrikaans: Turkye
Akan: Turki
Albanian: Turqi f (indefinite), Turqia (sq) f (definite)
Amharic: ቱርክ (turk)
Arabic: تُرْكِيَا (ar) f (turkiyā)
Hijazi Arabic: تُرْكِيا f (turkiya)
Aragonese: Turquía f
Aramaic: ܛܘܪܩܝܐ
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܘܪܟܝܐ (ṭurkiya)
Armenian: Թուրքիա (hy) (Tʻurkʻia)
Aromanian: Turchii f (indefinite), Turchia f (definite)
Assamese: তুৰস্ক (turosko)
Asturian: Turquía (ast) f
Azerbaijani: Türkiyə (az)
Bashkir: Төркиә (Türkiyä)
Basque: Turkia (eu)
Belarusian: Ту́рцыя f (Túrcyja), Турэ́ччына f (Turéččyna)
Bengali: তুরস্ক (bn) (turôśkô)
Bikol:
Central Bikol: Turkiya
Bislama: Turkey
Breton: Turkia (br)
Bulgarian: Ту́рция (bg) f (Túrcija)
Burmese: တူရကီ (tura.ki)
Buryat: Түрэг (Türeg)
Carpathian Rusyn: Ту́рція f (Túrcija)
Catalan: Turquia (ca) f
Cebuano: Turkiya
Chechen: Туркойчоь (Turkojčö), Турци (Turci)
Cherokee: ᎬᏂᏱ (gvniyi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 土耳其 (tou² ji⁵ kei⁴)

Hokkien: 土耳其 (Thó͘-nī-kî)

Mandarin: 土耳其 (zh) (Tǔ'ěrqí)
Circassian:
East Circassian: Тыркуей (Tərkʷujej)

West Circassian: Тыркуе (Tərkʷuje)
Crimean Tatar: Türkiye
Czech: Turecko (cs) n
Danish: Tyrkiet (da) n
Dhivehi: ތުރުކީވިލާތް (dv) (turukīvilāt̊), ތުރުކީ (turukī)
Dutch: Turkije (nl) n
Dzongkha: བྱའི་རིགས་ཅིག (bya'i rigs cig)
Emilian: Turchî
Esperanto: Turkio, Turkujo
Estonian: Türgi (et)
Ewe: Turkey
Farefare: Turko, Turgo
Faroese: Turkaland n
Fiji Hindi: Turkey
Finnish: Turkki (fi)
French: Turquie (fr) f
Middle French: Turquie
Frisian:
West Frisian: Turkije (fy)
Galician: Turquía (gl) f
Georgian: თურქეთი (ka) (turketi)
German: Türkei (de) f
Alemannic German: Tirkei f

Bavarian: Tiakei
Greek: Τουρκία (el) f (Tourkía)
Ancient Greek: Τουρκία (Tourkía)
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} Tuykia
Gujarati: તુર્કસ્તાન (turkastān)
Hausa: Turkiyya
Hawaiian: Kuleke
Hebrew: טוּרְקְיָה (he) f (túrkya), תּוּרְכְּיָה f (túrkya)
Hindi: तुर्की (hi) m (turkī), रूम (hi) m (rūm) (historical), तुर्किया m (turkiyā)
Hungarian: Törökország (hu)
Icelandic: Tyrkland (is) n
Ido: Turkia (io)
Indonesian: Turki (id)
Interlingua: Turchia
Irish: An Tuirc f
Istriot: Turcheîa
Italian: Turchia (it) f
Japanese: トルコ (ja) (Toruko) (土耳古 (ja))
Kalenjin: Turkey
Kamba: Turkey
Kannada: ಟರ್ಕಿ (kn) (ṭarki), ತುರುಕ (kn) (turuka)
Karakalpak: Túrkiya
Kashubian: Tëreckô n
Kazakh: Түркия (kk) (Türkıya)
Khmer: តួកគី (km) (tuəkkii)
Kikuyu: Turkey
Korean: 튀르키예 (ko) (Twireukiye), 터키 (ko) (Teoki), 뛰르끼예 (ko) (Ttwireukkiye) (North Korea)
Krymchak: Тӱркийа
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: تورکیا (ckb) (turkya)

Northern Kurdish: Tirkiye (ku)
Kven: Turkki
Kyrgyz: Түркия (ky) (Türkiya)
Ladino: Turkia
Lao: ຕວກກີ (lo) (tūak kī)
Latin: Turcia (la)
Latvian: Turcija (lv) f
Lithuanian: Turkija (lt) f
Luhya: Taki
Luo: Turkey
Macedonian: Турција (mk) f (Turcija)
Malay: Turki (ms)
Malayalam: തുർക്കി (ml) (tuṟkki)
Maltese: it-Turkija f
Manchu: ᡨᡠ᠋ᡵᡳᠶ᠋ᡝᠰᠺᠣ (turiyesk'o)
Manx: Yn Turkee f
Māori: Tākei, Tāke
Marathi: तुर्कस्तान m (turkastān)
Meru: Turkey
Mingrelian: თურქეთი (turketi)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Турк (mn) (Turk)

Mongolian script: ᠲᠦᠷᠻ (türk)
Navajo: Bichʼah Łichíiʼii Bikéyah
Ndonga: Turiki
Nepali: टर्की (ṭarkī)
Norman: Turqùie f (continental Normandy), Turquie f (Guernsey), Turtchie f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Tyrkia (no) n

Nynorsk: Tyrkia (nn) n
Occitan: Turquia (oc) f
Odia: ତୁର୍କୀ (or) (turki)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Тѷрци f (Türci)
Old Norse: Tyrkland n
Ossetian: Турк (Turk)
Pannonian Rusyn: Турска f (Turska)
Pashto: ترکيه (ps) f (torkya)
Pennsylvania German: Turkie
Persian:
Dari: تُرْکِیَه (turkiya)

Iranian Persian: تُرْکِیِه (torkiye)
Polish: Turcja (pl) f
Portuguese: Turquia (pt) f
Punjabi: ਤੁਰਕੀ (turkī)
Quechua: Turkiya
Rarotongan: Tūreka
Romagnol: Turchî
Romanian: Turcia (ro) f
Romansh: Tirchia f
Russian: Ту́рция (ru) f (Túrcija)
Sami:
Northern Sami: Durka
Samogitian: Torkėjė f
Scottish Gaelic: An Tuirc f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ту̀рска̄ (sh) f

Latin: Tùrskā (sh) f
Sherbro: Thɔɔki
Sicilian: Turchìa f
Silesian: Turcyjo f
Sinhalese: තුර්‍කිය (turkiya), තුර්කිය (turkiya)
Slovak: Turecko (sk) n
Slovene: Túrčija (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Turkojska f

Upper Sorbian: Turkowska f
Spanish: Turquía (es) f
Sranan Tongo: Torkukondre
Swahili: Uturuki class 11, Uturuki
Swedish: Turkiet (sv) n
Tagalog: Turkiya
Tajik: Туркия (tg) (Turkiya)
Tamil: துருக்கி (ta) (turukki)
Tatar: Төркия (Törkiyä)
Telugu: టర్కీ (te) (ṭarkī)
Thai: ตุรกี (th) (dtù-rá-gii), (ancient) หรุ่มโต้ระกี่, ทูร์เคีย (th) (tuu-kiia)
Tibetan: ཏུར་ཀི (tur ki)
Tigrinya: ቱርኪ (turki)
Turkish: Türkiye (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: تركیه (Türkiye), تركیا (Türkiyâ)
Turkmen: Türkiýe (tk)
Udmurt: Турция (Turcija)
Ukrainian: Туре́ччина (uk) f (Turéččyna)
Urdu: تُرْکِیَہ m (turkiya), تُرْکِیے m (turkiye), تُرْکی (ur) m (turkī) (phono-semantic matching from English), تُرْکِسْتان m (turkistān) (rare, dated)
Uyghur: تۈركىيە (türkiye)
Uzbek: Turkiya (uz)
Vietnamese: Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ (vi) (土耳其), Thổ Nhĩ Kì (rare)
Volapük: Türkän (vo)
Walloon: Tourkeye (wa)
Waray-Waray: Turkeya
Welsh: Twrci (cy)
Wolof: Tirki
Yakut: Туурсуйа (Tuursuya), Түркийэ (Türkiye)
Yiddish: טערקײַ f (terkay)
Yoruba: Tọ́kì
Zazaki: Tırkiya (diq) (Southern Zazaki)
Zhuang: Dujwjgiz

Noun

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

Turkey (comparative more Turkey, superlative most Turkey)

Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).
(obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).