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Turkey

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Etymology

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FromMiddle EnglishTurkye, fromAnglo-NormanTurkye,Medieval LatinTurcia, fromTurcus(“Turk”), fromByzantine GreekΤοῦρκος(Toûrkos), fromClassical Persianتُرْک(turk), fromMiddle Persian[script needed](twlk'/⁠turk⁠/), fromOld Turkic𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜(t²ür²k̥).

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Proper noun

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Turkey

  2. Acountrylocated inEastern Thrace inSoutheastern Europe andAnatolia inWest 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”, inCNN‎[1]:
      One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque inTurkey, 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?”, inThe Guardian‎[2],→ISSN:
      This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went toTurkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.
  3. (historical, now sometimes proscribed)Synonym ofOttoman Empire,a formerempire inEurope,Asia,Africa. Capital:Istanbul.

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Translations

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country at intersection of Europe and Asia

Noun

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Turkey (uncountable)

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

Adjective

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Turkey (uncountable)

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

See also

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countries in Asia (appendix)edit
countries in Europe (appendix)edit
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