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Turkey

proper nounnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈtɝki//
  • Australia//ˈtɜːki//

A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.

    One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, 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.

    This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.

  2. 2

    historicalSynonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.

  3. 3

    A city in Hall County, Texas, United States.

Etymology

From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ẅr²ẅk²). By surface analysis, Turke + -y.

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).

  2. 2

    obsoleteSynonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).

adjective

  1. 1

    Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).

  2. 2

    obsoleteSynonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).

Forms

comparative
more Turkey
superlative
most Turkey
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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