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Turkey

proper noun

  1. country
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noun

  1. bird in the genus Meleagris
  2. guinea fowl
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːki/ / /ˈtɝki/ / /ˈtøːki/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). By surface analysis, Turke + -y.

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

name

Etymology: From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). By surface analysis, Turke + -y.

  1. A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.

    “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.”

    “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.”

  2. Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
  3. A city in Hall County, Texas, United States.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). By surface analysis, Turke + -y.

  1. Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
  2. Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).