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Turkic

/ˈtɜːkɪk/US/ˈtɝkɪk/

Turkic adjective: of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages.

Adjective

Turkic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages.
    Synonyms:
    Turk

Proper noun

Turkic

  1. The language family that includes Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tuvan, Altai, Shor, Karakalpak, Khakas, Chuvash, Yakut, and any of the other dozens of languages spoken by Turkic peoples. It may be a subfamily of an Altaic language family.
    Synonyms:
    Turkish
  2. Any branch of that family.
    • [...] (3) the southeastern (se) branch or Uyghur Turkic; (4) the northeastern (ne) branch or Siberian Turkic; (5) Chuvash, representing Oghur or Bulghar Turkic; [...]2015, Babak Rezvani, Conflict and Peace in Central Eurasia
    Synonyms:
    Turkish
  3. Any language of that family.
    Synonyms:
    Turkish

Turkic meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Arabic

Turkic in Hindi

of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages
तुर्की turkī
language
तुरुष्क turuṣk

Turkic in Bengali

of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages
তুর্কী turkī

Turkic in Gujarati

Turkic
તુર્ક turk

Turkic in Arabic

of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages
تُرْكِيّ turkiyy
More languagesFewer languages
Turkic in Persian
ترکی torki
Turkic in Vietnamese
Đột Quyết

Synonyms of Turkic

Forms of Turkic

alternative formTurcic
alternative form (rare)Türkic

Origin of Turkic

Partly from Medieval Latin turcicus and partly from Turk + -ic.

Words formed from Turkic

Words that rhyme with Turkic

Questions about Turkic

What does Turkic mean?
Turkic means of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages.
What is Turkic in Hindi?
Turkic in Hindi is तुर्की (turkī), तुरुष्क (turuṣk). See Turkic meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Turkic?
Turkic can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Turkic?
Turkic is pronounced /ˈtɝkɪk/ (US).

Words near Turkic in the dictionary

  1. turkeymen
  2. turkeypox
  3. turkeys
  4. Turki
  5. Turkia
  6. Turkic
  7. Turkicisation
  8. Turkicise
  9. Turkicist
  10. Turkicists
  11. Turkicization

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Turkic (page history and authors); તુર્ક (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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