Turkey

See also: turkey

English

Wikivoyage

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.ki/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.ki/
Audio (US) (file)
Homophone: turkey
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki

Proper noun

Turkey

A country at the intersection of Europe and Asia on the Mediterranean. Official name: Republic of Türkiye
Synonyms: (official, rare) Türkiye, (rare) Turkiye

Derived terms

Turkey carpet
Turkey merchant
Turkey oak
Turkey oilstone
Turkey red
Turkey sponge
Turkey stone
Turkish

Related terms

turkey

Descendants

→ Korean: 터키 (Teoki)
→ Manx: Turkee

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: تُرْكِيَّا‎ (ar) f (turkiyyā)
Hijazi Arabic: تُرْكِيا‎ f (turkiya)
Aragonese: Turquía f
Aramaic: ܛܘܪܩܝܐ‎
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܘܼܪܟܝܼܵܐ‎ (ṭurkiya)
Armenian: Թուրքիա (hy) (Tʿurkʿia)
Aromanian: Turchii f (indefinite), Turchia f (definite)
Assamese: তুৰস্ক (turosko)
Asturian: Turquía (ast) f
Azerbaijani: Türkiyə (az)
Bashkir: Төркиә (Törkiä)
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)
Catalan: Turquia (ca) f
Cebuano: Turkiya
Chechen: Туркойчоь (Turkojčö), Турци (Turci)
Cherokee: ᎬᏂᏱ (gvniyi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 土耳其 (tou² yi⁵ kei⁴)
Mandarin: 土耳其 (zh) (Tǔ'ěrqí)
Min Nan: 土耳其 (Thó͘-nī-kî)
Crimean Tatar: Türkiye
Czech: Turecko (cs) n
Danish: Tyrkiet (da) n
Dhivehi: ތުރުކީވިލާތް‎ (dv) (turukīvilāt̊), ތުރުކީ‎ (turukī)
Dutch: Turkije (nl)
Dzongkha: བྱའི་རིགས་ཅིག (bya'i rigs cig)
Emilian: Turchî
Esperanto: Turkio, Turkujo
Estonian: Türgi (et)
Ewe: Turkey
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) n (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)
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 (Türkiä)
Khmer: តួកគី (km) (tuəkkii)
Kikuyu: Turkey
Korean: 터키 (ko) (Teoki), 튀르키예 (ko) (Twireukiye), 뛰르끼예 (ko) (Ttwireukkiye) (North Korea)
Krymchak: Тӱркийа
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: تورکیا‎ (ku) (turkya)
Northern Kurdish: Tirkiye (ku)
Kven: Turkki
Kyrgyz: Түркия (ky) (Türkiya)
Ladino: Turkia
Lao: ຕວກກີ (lo) (tūak kī)
Latin: Turcia (la)
Latvian: Turcija f
Lithuanian: Turkija (lt) f
Luhya: Taki
Luo: Turkey
Macedonian: Турција (mk) f (Turcija)
Malay: Turki (ms)
Malayalam: തുർക്കി (ml) (tuṟkki)
Maltese: it-Turkija
Manchu: ᡨᡠ᠋ᡵᡳᠶ᠋ᡝᠰᠺᠣ
Manx: Yn Turkee f
Maori: Tākei, Tāke
Marathi: तुर्कस्तान m (turkastān)
Meru: Turkey
Mingrelian: თურქეთი (turketi)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Турк (mn) (Turk)
Mongolian: ᠲᠦᠷᠻ (türkh)
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)
Nynorsk: Tyrkia (nn)
Occitan: Turquia (oc) f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Тѷрци (Tü̏rci)
Old Norse: Tyrkland n
Oriya: ତୁର୍କୀ (or) (turki)
Ossetian: Турк (Turk)
Ottoman Turkish: تركیه‎ (Türkiye), تركیا‎ (Türkiya)
Pashto: ترکيه‎ (ps) f (torkyá)
Pennsylvania German: Turkie
Persian: ترکیه‎ (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)
Rusyn: Ту́рція f (Túrcija)
Samogitian: Torkėjė 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
Upper Sorbian: Turkowska f
Spanish: Turquía (es) f
Sranan Tongo: Torkukondre
Swahili: Uturuki class 11, Uturuki
Swedish: Turkiet (sv)
Tagalog: Turkiya
Tajik: Туркия (tg) (Turkiya)
Tamil: துருக்கி (ta) (turukki)
Tatar: Төркия (Törkiya)
Telugu: టర్కీ (te) (ṭarkī)
Thai: ตุรกี (th) (dtù-rá-gii), (ancient) หรุ่มโต้ระกี่
Tibetan: ཏུར་ཀི (tur ki)
Tigrinya: ቱርኪ (turki)
Turkish: Türkiye (tr)
Turkmen: Türkiýe (tk)
Udmurt: Турция (Turcija)
Ukrainian: Туре́ччина (uk) f (Turéččyna)
Urdu: ترکی‎ (ur) m (turkī), ترکیہ‎ m (turkiya) (modern), ترکستان‎ 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: Turkeye
Waray-Waray: Turkeya
Welsh: Twrci
West Frisian: Turkije (fy)
Wolof: Tirki
Yakut: Туурсуйа (Tuursuya), Түркийэ (Türkiye)
Yiddish: טערקײַ‎ f (terkay)
Yoruba: Tọ́kì
Zazaki: Tırkiya (diq) (Southern Zazaki)
Zhuang: Dujwjgiz