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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).

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːki/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝki/

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• (New Zealand, Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtøːki/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌɾke/, /-kɪ/, /-ki/
• (Dublin) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊːki/, /ˈtʊːɹki/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈteːki/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛːki/
• Homophone: turkey
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
• Hyphenation: turk‧ey

Turkey

1. 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

   • 2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2025 May 11, Imogen West-Knights, “‘I lost so much weight, my husband thought I was terminally ill’: why do people lie about taking Ozempic?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.

2. (historical, now sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
3. A city in Hall County, Texas, United States.

• turkey

• → 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)

Turkey (uncountable)

1. Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
2. (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).

Turkey (uncountable)

1. Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).
2. (obsolete) Synonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).

• Appendix:Countries of the world

• Turkey Street (not etymologically related, not even to the bird!)