Turkmen

//ˈtɝk.mən// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, from, or pertaining to Turkmenistan, the Turkmen people or the Turkmen language. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or characteristic of Turkmenistan or its people or culture wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.
Noun
  1. 1
    A person from Turkmenistan or of Turkmen descent.

    "The conquest took 16 years and ended in 1885 in a battle with the Afghans on the banks of the Murghab. During this period, the Turkmens offered the Russians stubborn resistance […]"

  2. 2
    plural of Turkman form-of, plural, proscribed
  3. 3
    the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman wordnet
  4. 4
    a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.

Etymology 2

The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.

Etymology 3

The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.

Etymology 4

Treated as a plural of the deprecated term Turkman, influenced by English man, plural men.

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