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Turkish

UK/ˈtɜː.kɪʃ//ˈtɝ.kɪʃ/

Turkish proper noun: the official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus (alongside Greek) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Proper noun

Turkish

  1. The official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus (alongside Greek) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
  2. Synonym of Turkic.
    • This dictionary for Chaghatay Turkish (although it also contains much material for what the author calls 'Rūmī', i.e. south-western Turkish, above all, Ottoman) is the Sanglakh of an obscure eighteenth-century compiler2001, C. Edmund Bosworth, editor, A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001, page 97
    • M.A. Òerbak considers Chaghatay Turkish a period of Uzbek.2003, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Culture and Learning in Islam, page 256
    Synonyms:
    Turkic

Adjective

Turkish (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language.
    • When a question was asked, would put on a mysterious look. Shake his head. Smoke in silence. Observe, at length, he had doubts. Presided at the council, in state. Swayed a Turkish pipe instead of a scepter. Known to sit with eyes closed ...[…]1896, Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg, Higher Lessons in English: A work on English Grammar and composition, 1st edition, Outlook Verlag GmbH, published 2023, →ISBN, page 557
    • The SNC has broad support, with a strong Sunni Muslim component and is backed by the Turkish government.2011 December 31, “Syrian opposition group: More than 5,800 died in 2011”, in CNN
  2. Synonym of Turkic.
    • [...] in Mongolian and some Turkish languages1962, Gerard Clauson, Turkish and Mongolian Studies, page 37
    • Old Turkish began with the separation, formation and consolidation of the independent Turkish languages.1982, András Róna-Tas, Chuvash Studies, page 119
    Synonyms:
    Turkic

Turkish meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

Turkish in Hindi

official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
तुर्की turkī
of, from or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language
तुर्कीयाई turkīyāī, तुर्की turkī

Turkish in Urdu

official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
ترکی turkī, ترکی زبان turkī-zubān
of, from or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language
ترکی turkī

Turkish in Bengali

official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
তুর্কি turki
of, from or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language
তুর্কি turki

Turkish in Malayalam

Turkish
തുർക്കിഷ് tuṟkkiṣŭ
More languagesFewer languages
Turkish in Kannada
ತುರುಕ turuka
Turkish in Pashto
ترکي torkí
Turkish in Arabic
التُّرْكِيَّة at-turkiyya, اللُّغَة التُّرْكِيَّة al-luḡa t-turkiyya, تُرْكِيّ turkiyy
Turkish in Malay
bahasa Turki, Turki
Turkish in Indonesian
turki
Turkish in Persian
ترکی استانبولی torki-ye estânboli, زبان ترکی zabân-e torki, ترکی torki, ترکیهای torkiye'i
Turkish in Thai
ตุรกี dtù-rá-gii
Turkish in Vietnamese
tiếng Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, tiếng Thổ, Thổ Nhĩ Kì
Turkish in Myanmar
တူရကီ tura.ki
Dhivehi
ތުރުކީ turukī

Examples of Turkish in a sentence

  • And my uncle always shouted: “Uzbek Turkish is very close to our Turkish language!”2011, Elif Batuman, The Possessed:
  • It was Navai who through his poetry almost single-handedly turned his native Chaghatay Turkish into a literary language.2022, Dominic Lieven, In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History:
  • This is openly a characteristics of Chaghatay and other Eastern Turkish languages and dialects.2007, László Károly, Turcology in Turkey: selected papers, page 458:
  • In the Timurid empire, the Chaghatay Turkish language, which became the standard of the Timurid court, was part of the eastern branch of Turkic languages.2019, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Hammer and Anvil:

Synonyms of Turkish

Forms of Turkish

alternative form (rare)Türkish

Origin of Turkish

From Turk + -ish. Doublet of turquoise.

Words formed from Turkish

Phrases with Turkish

16 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about Turkish

What does Turkish mean?
Turkish means the official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus (alongside Greek) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
What is Turkish in Hindi?
Turkish in Hindi is तुर्की (turkī), तुर्कीयाई (turkīyāī). See Turkish meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Turkish in a sentence?
And my uncle always shouted: “Uzbek Turkish is very close to our Turkish language!”
What part of speech is Turkish?
Turkish can be a proper noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce Turkish?
Turkish is pronounced /ˈtɜː.kɪʃ/ (UK).

Words near Turkish in the dictionary

  1. Turkify
  2. Turkifying
  3. Turking
  4. turkis
  5. turkises
  6. Turkish
  7. Turkish Angora
  8. Turkish Angoras
  9. Turkish bath
  10. Turkish baths
  11. Turkish bow

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Turkish (page history and authors); തുർക്കിഷ് (Malayalam) (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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