Turk
/tɝk/ · noun
Meaning
- A person of an ethnically diverse linguistic group that speaks the Turkic languages.
- A person of a Turkic ethnic group native to Anatolia, constituting the ethnic majority of Turkey.
- A Muslim.
- a Christian horse-archer in Crusader army (Turcopole).
- A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian.
- A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina.
- A person from Llanelli, Wales.
- A Turkish horse.
- The plum curculio.
- Synonym of Turkic.
- Synonym of Turkish.
- A surname.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). See Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k for more.
- 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜(Old Turkic)→
- تُرْک(fa-cls)→
- Τοῦρκος(gkm)→
- Turcus(la-med)→
- Turc(Old French)→
- Turke(Middle English)→
- Turk (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der, der, der, der
Related words
Descendant words
- ቱርክ(Amharic) (cog)
- turc(Catalan) (cog)
- Tyrc(Welsh) (bor)
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