Turkey

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Turkey

Wikivoyage has an article on:

Turkey

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːki/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝki/
(Dublin) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊːki/, /ˈtʊːɹki/
Audio (General American): (file)
Audio (General American): (file)
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Audio (UK): (file)
Homophone: turkey
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
Hyphenation: turk‧ey

Proper noun

Turkey

A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in western Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.
Synonyms: (official, 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:
  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, →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, now sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.

Derived terms

Related terms

turkey

Descendants

→ 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

country at intersection of Europe and Asia

Abkhaz: Ҭырқтәыла (Tərktʷʼəla), Ҭырқәтәыла (Tərkʷtʷʼəla)
Acehnese: Tureuki
Adyghe: Тыркуе (Tərkʷuje)
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: ܛܘܼܪܟܝܼܵܐ (ṭurkiya)
Armenian: Թուրքիա (hy) (Tʻurkʻia)
Aromanian: Turchii f (indefinite), Turchia f (definite)
Assamese: তুৰস্ক (turosko)
Asturian: Turquía (ast) f
Azerbaijani: Türkiyə (az)
Bashkir: Төркиә (Törkiə)
Basque: Turkia (eu)
Bavarian: Tiakei
Belarusian: Ту́рцыя f (Túrcyja), Турэ́ччына f (Turéččyna)
Bengali: তুরস্ক (bn) (turôśkô)
Bikol Central: 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)
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
Galician: Turquía (gl) f
Georgian: თურქეთი (ka) (turketi)
German: Türkei (de) f
Alemannic German: Tirkei f
Greek: Τουρκία (el) f (Tourkía)
Ancient Greek: Τουρκία (Tourkía)
Guaraní: 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))
Kabardian: Тыркуей (Tərkʷujej)
Kalenjin: Turkey
Kamba: Turkey
Kannada: ಟರ್ಕಿ (kn) (ṭarki), ತುರುಕ (kn) (turuka)
Karakalpak: Túrkiya
Kashubian: Tëreckô n
Kazakh: Түркия (kk) (Türkiä)
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
Maori: Tākei, Tāke
Marathi: तुर्कस्तान m (turkastān)
Meru: Turkey
Mingrelian: თურქეთი (turketi)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Турк (mn) (Turk)

Mongolian: ᠲᠦᠷᠻ (türk)
Navajo: Bichʼah Łichíiʼii Bikéyah
Nepali: टर्की (ṭarkī)
Norman: Turqùie f (continental Normandy), Turquie f (Guernsey), Turtchie f (Jersey)
Northern Sami: Durka
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)
Ottoman Turkish: تركیه (Türkiye), تركیا (Türkiyâ)
Pannonian Rusyn: Турска f (Turska)
Pashto: ترکيه (ps) f (torkya)
Pennsylvania German: Turkie
Persian:
Dari: تُرْکِیَه (fa) (turkiya)

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

Roman: Tùrskā (sh) f
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)
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)
West Frisian: Turkije (fy)
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 (uncountable)

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

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

Noun

Adjective

See also

Wikiwand - on