Turkestan

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English

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Etymology

From Persian ترکستان (torkestân), from Middle Persian twlkstʾn' (Turkestān), from twlk' (Turk) + -stʾn' (-estān).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌtɜː(ɹ)kɪˈstɑːn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌtɜɹkɪˈstæn/, /ˈtɜɹkɪˌstæn/

Proper noun

Turkestan

  1. (historical) The regions of Central Asia lying between Siberia to the north; Tibet (Xizang) and Xinjiang, China, modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran to the south; the Gobi Desert to the east; and the Caspian Sea to the west.
    • 1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 344:
      Men, women, and children were p'a-hsia (squatting, as a camel squats), to use the Gobi caravan phrase, without a tent among them, but sheltered by big rocks. A little fire was being jealously fed from the small store of fuel they had brought on their pack animals, and they gave us tea. They were gravely merry and pressed on us the courtesy of the good folk of Turkestan. Old men stroked their beards and youths waited on us and women fluttered about the rim of the circle to get a glimpse of the khanum, my wife.

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Former Russian Turkestan (before 1917 revolution):

Former Chinese Turkestan:

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French

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tyʁ.kɛs.tɑ̃/
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Proper noun

Turkestan m

  1. Turkestan

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Swedish

Proper noun

Turkestan c (genitive Turkestans)

  1. (historical) Turkestan