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Turkisms

Turkisms is the plural of Turkism.

Meaning of Turkism

Noun

Turkism (countable and uncountable, plural Turkisms)

  1. Turkish culture, religion and tradition.
    • Joseph's enthusiasm for promoting new German opera resulted in Mozart's The Escape from the Seraglio, the opera's jokey Turkism itself an indicator of the Ottomans' declining threat status.2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 279
  2. (rhetoric) A Turkish word, or a Turkish-derived word, used in a language not related to Turkish.

Questions about Turkisms

What is Turkisms the plural of?
Turkisms is the plural of Turkism.

Words near Turkisms in the dictionary

  1. Turkish Vankedisi
  2. Turkish Vans
  3. Turkishly
  4. Turkishness
  5. Turkism
  6. Turkisms
  7. Turkistan
  8. Turkistani
  9. Turkistanis
  10. Turkiye
  11. Turkization

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