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English
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 (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). See Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
Turk (plural Turks)
- A speaker of the various Turkic languages.
- A person from Turkey or of Turkish ethnic descent.
- (obsolete) A Muslim.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 268, column 2: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?
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:Compare but our manners unto a Turke [translating Mahometan], or a Pagan, and we must needs yeeld unto them […].
1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation:It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian.
- a Christian horse-archer in Crusader army (Turcopole).
- (archaic) A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian.[1]
1579, John Lyly, Euphues, page 42:Was neuer any Impe so wicked and barbarous, any Turke so vyle and brutishe.
1760, Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 9, page 20:A sort of primitive barbarity distinguishes the whole; no variety of character appears; and to call a man Turk is to say, that he is jealous, haughty, covetous, ignorant, and lascivious; at the same time that a certain dignity of gait, and magnificence of manners, gives him the appearance of generosity and true greatness of soul.
1987, Anne Mozley, Essays from "Blackwood", page 21:A bad temper does seem often favourable to health. The man who has been a Turk all his life lives long to plague all about him.
1906, George Meredith, One of our conquerors, page 292:As much as the wilfully or naturally blunted, the intelligently honest have to learn by touch: only, their understandings cannot meanwhile be so wholly obtuse as our society's matron, acting to please the tastes of the civilized man—a creature that is not clean-washed of the Turk in him—barbarously exacts.
1928, Luṫfī Levonian, Moslem mentality: a discussion of the presentation of Christianity to Moslems, page 85:They regarded the very word Turk as synonymous with ignorance, impoliteness, and idiocy. To call a man 'Turk' was regarded as a great dishonour to him.
- A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina.
- A person from Llanelli, Wales.
- A Turkish horse.
- The plum curculio.
Derived terms
Translations
a person from Turkey
- Afrikaans: Turk
- Albanian: turk (sq) m, turkeshë (sq) f
- Arabic: تُرْكِيّ m (turkiyy), تُرْكِيَّة (ar) f (turkiyya)
- Armenian: թուրք (hy) (tʻurkʻ)
- Aromanian: turcu m
- Azerbaijani: türk (az)
- Bashkir: төрөк (török)
- Belarusian: ту́рак m (túrak), турча́нка f (turčánka)
- Bengali: তুর্কি (bn) (turki)
- Bulgarian: ту́рчин m (túrčin), турки́ня (bg) f (turkínja)
- Catalan: turc (ca) m, turca (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᎠᎬᎾ (agvna)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 土耳其人 (zh) (Tǔ'ěrqírén)
- Coptic: ⲧⲟⲩⲝ m (touks)
- Czech: Turek (cs) m, Turkyně (cs) f
- Danish: tyrk c, tyrker (da) c
- Dutch: Turk (nl) m, Turkse (nl) f
- Esperanto: turko (man or woman), turkino (woman)
- Estonian: türklane (et)
- Faroese: turkur m
- Finnish: turkkilainen (fi)
- French: Turc (fr) m, Turque (fr) f
- Galician: turco (gl) m, turca f
- Georgian: თურქი (turki)
- German: Türke (de) m, Türkin (de) f
- Greek: Τούρκος (el) m (Toúrkos), Τουρκάλα (el) f (Tourkála)
- Ancient: Τοῦρκος m (Toûrkos)
- Hindi: तुर्क (hi) (turk), तुर्की (hi) (turkī)
- Hungarian: török (hu)
- Icelandic: Tyrki m
- Indonesian: orang turki
- Irish: Turcach m
- Italian: turco (it) m, turca (it) f
- Japanese: トルコ人 (ja) (torukojin)
- Kalmyk: түрг (türg)
- Kannada: ತುರುಕ (kn) (turuka)
- Kazakh: түрік (türık)
- Korean: 터키 사람 (teoki saram), 터키인 (teokiin), 튀르키예 사람 (twireukiye saram), 튀르키예인 (twireukiyein)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: tirk (ku), turk (ku)
- Kyrgyz: түрк (ky) (türk)
- Latvian: turks m, turciete f
- Lithuanian: turkas (lt) m, turkė (lt) f
- Macedonian: Турчин m (Turčin), Турчинка f (Turčinka)
- Manx: Turkagh m
- Mingrelian: თურქი (turki), თანთარი (tantari)
- Mongolian: турк (turk)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tyrker (no) m
- Nynorsk: tyrk m, tyrkar (nn) m
- Ottoman Turkish: تركی (türkî)
- Pashto: ترک (ps) m (tork)
- Persian: ترک (fa) (tork)
- Polish: Turek (pl) m, Turczynka (pl) f
- Portuguese: turco (pt) m, turca f
- Romanian: turc (ro) m, turcoaică (ro) f, turcă (ro) f
- Russian: ту́рок (ru) m (túrok), турча́нка (ru) f (turčánka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Ту̀рчӣн m, Ту̏ркиња f
- Roman: Tùrčīn (sh) m, Tȕrkinja f
- Slovak: Turek (sk) m, Turkyňa (sk) f
- Slovene: Túrek (sl) m, Túrkinja f
- Southern Altai: тӱрк (türk)
- Spanish: turco (es) m, turca (es) f
- Swahili: Mturuki (sw)
- Swedish: turk (sv) c
- Tajik: турк (turk)
- Tatar: төрек (tt) (törek)
- Turkish: Türk (tr)
- Turkmen: Türk
- Tuvan: турк (turk)
- Ukrainian: ту́рок (uk) m (túrok), турча́нка f (turčánka)
- Urdu: ترک (turk)
- Uyghur: تۈرك (türk)
- Uzbek: turk (uz)
- Yakut: турок (turok), туурак (tuurak)
- Yiddish: טערק m (terk)
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a speaker of the various Turkic languages
bloodthirsty and savage person
Adjective
Turk (comparative more Turk, superlative most Turk)
- Synonym of Turkic
2017, Karen Malone, Children in the Anthropocene:Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country: Kazakh, a Turk language spoken natively by mainly the Kazakh population, has the status of the 'state' language, [...]
- Synonym of Turkish
Proper noun
Turk
- A surname.
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Afrikaans
Noun
Turk (plural Turke, diminutive Turkie)
- Turk (person from Turkey or of Turkish descent)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
Turk m (plural Turken, diminutive Turkje n, feminine Turkse)
- a Turkish person, a Turk
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