Turkey

== English == Wikivoyage === Etymology === From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɜːki/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɝki/ (Dublin) IPA(key): /ˈtʊːki/, /ˈtʊːɹki/ Homophone: turkey Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki Hyphenation: turk‧ey === Proper noun === Turkey A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara. Synonyms: (official, uncommon) Türkiye, (uncommon) Turkiye, Republic of Turkey (historical, now sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== turkey ==== Descendants ==== → Chinese: 土雞 / 土鸡 (tǔjī) (phono-semantic matching) → Hindi: तुर्की (turkī) (phono-semantic matching) → Korean: 터키 (Teoki) → Manx: Turkee → Urdu: تُرْکی (turkī) (phono-semantic matching) ==== Translations ==== === Noun === Turkey (uncountable) Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”). (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”). === Adjective === Turkey (uncountable) Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”). (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”). === See also === Appendix:Countries of the world === See also === Turkey Street (not etymologically related, not even to the bird!)