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Turky

Turky is the obsolete form of Turkey.

Meaning of Turkey

Proper noun

Turkey

  1. A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.
    • One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN
  2. (historical) Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
    Synonyms:
    Ottoman Empire
  3. A city in Hall County, Texas, United States.

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Questions about Turky

What is Turky the obsolete form of?
Turky is the obsolete form of Turkey.

Words near Turky in the dictionary

  1. Turku
  2. Turkuan
  3. Turkwise
  4. Turkwoman
  5. Turkwomen
  6. Turky
  7. turlet
  8. turlets
  9. Turley
  10. Turleys
  11. Turlington

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Turky (page history and authors); Turkey (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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