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English
Pronunciation
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.'"[1] 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.[2]
Noun
Turkmen (countable and uncountable, plural Turkmen or Turkmens)
- (countable) A person from Turkmenistan or of Turkmen descent.
2005, Chahryar Adle, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, page 316: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 […]
2009, Barbara A. West, Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania, page 841:Keimir-Ker, a Turkmen from the Tekke clan, led a rebellion against the Persians […]
- (uncountable) A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.
Translations
person from Turkmenistan or of Turkmen descent
- Arabic: تُرْكُمَانِيّ m (turkumāniyy), تُرْكُمَانِيَّة f (turkumāniyya)
- Armenian: թուրքմեն (hy) (tʻurkʻmen)
- Azerbaijani: türkmən
- Bashkir: төрөкмән (törökmən)
- Belarusian: туркме́н m (turkmjén), туркме́нка f (turkmjénka)
- Catalan: turcman (ca) m, turcmana (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 土庫曼人 / 土库曼人 (zh) (tǔkùmànrén)
- Czech: Turkmen (cs) m, Turkmenka (cs) f
- Dutch: Turkmeen (nl) m, Turkmeense (nl) f
- Esperanto: turkmeno, turkmenino (woman)
- Faroese: turkmeni m
- Finnish: turkmeeni (fi)
- French: Turkmène (fr) m or f
- Georgian: თურქმენი (turkmeni)
- German: Turkmene (de) m, Turkmenin (de) f
- Hungarian: türkmén (hu)
- Japanese: トルクメン人 (torukumenjin)
- Kazakh: түркмен (türkmen)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: تورکمان (turkman)
- Latvian: turkmēnis m, turkmēniete f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: turkmener (no) m
- Nynorsk: turkmen (nn) m, turkmenar (nn) m
- Pashto: ترکمن m (torkmán)
- Persian: ترکمن (fa) (torkaman), ترکمان (torkmân)
- Polish: Turkmen (pl) m, Turkmenka (pl) f
- Portuguese: turcomeno (pt) m, turcomano (pt) m
- Romanian: turkmen (ro) m, turkmenă (ro) f
- Russian: туркме́н (ru) m (turkmén), туркме́нка (ru) f (turkménka)
- Slovak: Turkmén m, Turkménec m, Turkménka f
- Spanish: turcomano (es) m, turcomana (es) f
- Swahili: Mturukimeni (sw)
- Swedish: turkmen (sv) c, turkmenistanier (sv) c
- Tajik: туркман (turkman)
- Tatar: төрекмән (tt) (törekmän)
- Turkish: Türkmen (tr)
- Turkmen: türkmen
- Cyrillic: түркмен
- Ukrainian: туркме́н m (turkmén), туркме́нка f (turkménka)
- Uyghur: تۈركمەن (türkmen)
- Uzbek: turkman (uz)
- Yiddish: טורקמענער m (túrkmener)
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language spoken in Turkmenistan
Adjective
Turkmen (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Turkmenistan, the Turkmen people or the Turkmen language.
Translations
of or pertaining to Turkmenistan, the Turkmen people or the Turkmen language
Etymology 2
Treated as a plural of the deprecated term Turkman, influenced by English man, plural men.
Noun
Turkmen
- (deprecated) plural of Turkman
Usage notes
Usage of Turkman, especially as a singular of Turkmen, has steadily declined and has become rare in comparison with Turkmen (plural Turkmen or Turkmens) since the 19th century as can be seen here.
References
- ^ Clark, Larry (1996) Turkmen Reference Grammar, Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 4, Annanepesov, M. (1999) “The Turkmens”, in Dani, Ahmad Hasan, editor, History of civilizations of Central Asia, Motilal Banarsidass, →ISBN, page 127, Golden, Peter (1992) An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples : ethnogenesis and state-formation in the medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East, Harrassowitz, pages 213–214.
- ^ Clark, Larry (1996) Turkmen Reference Grammar, Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 4–5,Annanepesov, M. (1999) “The Turkmens”, in Dani, Ahmad Hasan, editor, History of civilizations of Central Asia, Motilal Banarsidass, →ISBN, page 127,Golden, Peter (1992) An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples : ethnogenesis and state-formation in the medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East, Harrassowitz, pages 213–214.
Further reading
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
Turkmen m anim (female equivalent Turkmenka)
- Turkmen, Turkoman, Turkman (person)
Declension
Declension of Turkmen (hard masculine animate)
Maltese
Pronunciation
Adjective
Turkmen (feminine singular Turkmena, plural Turkmeni)
- Turkmen (of, from or relating to Turkmenistan)
Noun
Turkmen m (plural Turkmeni, feminine Turkmena)
- Turkmen (native or inhabitant of Turkmenistan)
Noun
It-Turkmen m
- Turkmen (language)