Turk
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A speaker of the various Turkic languages.
- 2 a native or inhabitant of Turkey wordnet
- 3 A person from Turkey or of Turkish ethnic descent.
- 4 A Muslim. obsolete
"Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers—if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me—with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players?"
- 5 a Christian horse-archer in Crusader army (Turcopole).
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- 6 A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian. archaic
"Was neuer any Impe so wicked and barbarous, any Turke so vyle and brutishe."
- 7 A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina.
- 8 A person from Llanelli, Wales.
- 9 A Turkish horse.
- 10 The plum curculio.
- 1 Synonym of Turkic.
"Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country: Kazakh, a Turk language spoken natively by mainly the Kazakh population, has the status of the 'state' language, [...]"
- 2 Synonym of Turkish.
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Gurkha, a Latvian, a Turk, an Aussie, a German, an American, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Mexican, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Jordanian, a Kiwi, a Swede, a Finn, an Israeli, a Romanian, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian, an Argentinian, a Libyan and a South African went to a night club. The bouncer said: "Sorry, I can't let you in without a Thai.""
Etymology
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.
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