Tuirc

See also: tuirc

Irish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos).

Proper noun

An Tuirc f (genitive na Tuirce)

1. Turkey (a country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia)

Declension

Declension of Tuirc (second declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative Tuirc vocative a Thuirc genitive Tuirce dative Tuirc forms with the definite article singular nominative an Tuirc genitive na Tuirce dative leis an Tuirc don Tuirc

Derived terms

• Tuircis f (“the Turkish language”)
• Turcach (“Turkish”, adjective)
• Turcach m (“Turk”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Tuirc

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Tuirc	Thuirc	dTuirc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• “Turkey”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “Tuirc”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm