# Turkish
## English
### Alternative forms

* Türkish (rare)

### Etymology

From Turk +‎ -ish. Doublet of turquoise.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈtɜː.kɪʃ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈtɝ.kɪʃ/, [ˈtɚ.kɪʃ], [ˈtɐ˞.kɪʃ]
* Audio (US):(file)

### Proper noun

Turkish
* The official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus (alongside Greek) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
    Synonyms: Anatolian Turkic, Anatolian Turkish
* 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.

#### Translations
### Adjective

Turkish (not comparable)
* 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 ... […]
* 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.

#### Synonyms

* Turk

#### Translations
### Derived terms

* Anatolian Turkish
* Modern Turkish
* Old Anatolian Turkish
* Ottoman Turkish
* Turkish Angora
* Turkish bath
* Turkish bread
* Turkish carpet
* Turkish checkers
* Turkish coffee
* Turkish corsair
* Turkish crescent
* Turkish delight
* Turkish draughts
* Turkishly
* Turkishness
* Turkish pizza
* Turkish Republic
* Turkish Riviera
* Turkish sage
* Turkish Star Wars
* Turkish towel
* Turkish Van
* Turkish Vankedisi

### Related terms

* Turk
* Turkic
* turquoise

### See also

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

### Further reading

* 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 ⁠

### Anagrams

* ski-thru