Turkish

• Türkish (rare)

Turk +‎ -ish. Doublet of turquoise.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.kɪʃ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.kɪʃ/, [ˈtɚ.kɪʃ], [ˈtɐ˞.kɪʃ]

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Turkish

1. The official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus (alongside Greek) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

   Synonyms: Anatolian Turkic, Anatolian Turkish

2. Synonym of Turkic
   • 2001, C. Edmund Bosworth, editor, A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001, page 97:

     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 compiler

   • 2003, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Culture and Learning in Islam, page 256:

     M.A. Òerbak considers Chaghatay Turkish a period of Uzbek.

   • 2011, Talat S. Halman, Jayne L. Warner, A Millennium of Turkish Literature, page 6:

     [...] these works include stories of the battles the Turks fought against the Chinese, a variety of legends, and numerous specimens of verse (found mostly in Chinese translation) written in Uyghur Turkish.

   • 2011, Elif Batuman, The Possessed:

     And my uncle always shouted: “Uzbek Turkish is very close to our Turkish language!”

   • 2022, Dominic Lieven, In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History:

     It was Navai who through his poetry almost single-handedly turned his native Chaghatay Turkish into a literary language.

Turkish (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language.

   Synonyms: Anatolian Turkic, Anatolian Turkish

   • 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:

     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 ... […]

2. Synonym of Turkic
   • 1962, Gerard Clauson, Turkish and Mongolian Studies, page 37:

     [...] in Mongolian and some Turkish languages

   • 1982, András Róna-Tas, Chuvash Studies, page 119:

     Old Turkish began with the separation, formation and consolidation of the independent Turkish languages.

   • 2007, László Károly, Turcology in Turkey: selected papers, page 458:

     This is openly a characteristics of Chaghatay and other Eastern Turkish languages and dialects.

   • 2019, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Hammer and Anvil:

     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.

• Turk

• Turk
• Turkic
• turquoise

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Turkish terms
• Appendix:Turkish Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Turkish

• Turkish - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
• ISO 639-1 code tr, ISO 639-3 code tur (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Turkish, tur ⁠

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