From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ẅr²ẅk²). See Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k for more.
Meanings
Synonym of Turkic.
Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country: Kazakh, a Turk language spoken natively by mainly the Kazakh population, has the status of the 'state' language, [...] 2017, Karen Malone, Children in the Anthropocene:
From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ẅr²ẅk²). See Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k for more.
Meanings
A person of an ethnically diverse linguistic group that speaks the Turkic languages.
A member of a Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to Anatolia (which comprises the bulk of their modern nation-state of Türkiye).
The people of Matabello, like those of most of the Mahometan villages of East Ceram and Goram, amused me much by their strange ideas concerning the Russian war. They believe that the Russians were not only most thoroughly beaten by the Turks, but were absolutely conquered, and all converted to Islamism! And they can hardly be convinced that such is not the case, and that had it not been for the assistance of France and England, the poor Sultan world have fared ill. Another of their motions is, that the Turks are the largest and strongest people in the world - in fact a race of giants; that they eat enormous quantities of meat, and are a most ferocious and irresistible nation. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 104:
(obsolete) A Muslim.
It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian. 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation:
Compare but our manners unto a Turke [translating Mahometan], or a Pagan, and we must needs yeeld unto them[…]. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers—if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me—with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players? c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 268, column 2:
a Christian horse-archer in Crusader army (Turcopole).
(archaic) A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian.
A bad temper does seem often favourable to health. The man who has been a Turk all his life lives long to plague all about him. 1987, Anne Mozley, Essays from "Blackwood", page 21:
They regarded the very word Turk as synonymous with ignorance, impoliteness, and idiocy. To call a man 'Turk' was regarded as a great dishonour to him. 1928, Luṫfī Levonian, Moslem mentality: a discussion of the presentation of Christianity to Moslems, page 85:
As much as the wilfully or naturally blunted, the intelligently honest have to learn by touch: only, their understandings cannot meanwhile be so wholly obtuse as our society's matron, acting to please the tastes of the civilized man—a creature that is not clean-washed of the Turk in him—barbarously exacts. 1906, George Meredith, One of our conquerors, page 292:
Was neuer any Impe so wicked and barbarous, any Turke so vyle and brutishe. 1579, John Lyly, Euphues, page 42:
A sort of primitive barbarity distinguishes the whole; no variety of character appears; and to call a man Turk is to say, that he is jealous, haughty, covetous, ignorant, and lascivious; at the same time that a certain dignity of gait, and magnificence of manners, gives him the appearance of generosity and true greatness of soul. 1760, Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 9, page 20:
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Turkyně (a person from Turkey) · da tyrker (a person from Turkey) · es turco (a person from Turkey) · fr Turque (a person from Turkey) · sv turk (a person from Turkey) · it turca (a person from Turkey) · pt bárbaro (bloodthirsty and savage person) · rup turcu (a person from Turkey) · tyv түрк (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · cs Turek (a person from Turkey) · hi तुर्की (a person from Turkey) · bn তুর্কি (a person from Turkey) · nb tyrker (a person from Turkey) · ca turc (a person from Turkey) · gv Turkagh (a person from Turkey) · uk ту́рок (a person from Turkey) · ko 튀르키예인 (a person from Turkey) · eo turko (a person from Turkey) · xal тюрк (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · xal түрг (a person from Turkey) · ps ترک (a person from Turkey) · th คนตุรกี (a person from Turkey) · uk турча́нка (a person from Turkey) · de Türke (a person from Turkey) · xmf თურქი (a person from Turkey) · ca turca (a person from Turkey) · chr ᎠᎬᎾ (a person from Turkey) · hu török (a person from Turkey) · sl Túrek (a person from Turkey) · ko 돌궐인 (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · mn турк (a person from Turkey) · ru ту́рок (a person from Turkey) · ota تورك (a person from Turkey) · de Türkin (a person from Turkey) · sah турок (a person from Turkey) · ko 투르크인 (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · ar تُرْكِيَّة (a person from Turkey) · cop ⲧⲟⲩⲝ (a person from Turkey) · pt selvagem (bloodthirsty and savage person) · af Turk (a person from Turkey) · kn ತುರುಕ (a person from Turkey) · fo turkur (a person from Turkey) · sh vandal (bloodthirsty and savage person) · ko 돌궐 사람 (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · cmn 土耳其人 (a person from Turkey) · ko 튀르키예 사람 (a person from Turkey) · vi người Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ (a person from Turkey) · hu türk (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · ko 투르크 사람 (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · sw Mturuki (a person from Turkey) · tk Türk (a person from Turkey) · ru тюрк (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · ota تركی (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · sh varvarin (bloodthirsty and savage person) · hi तुर्क (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · hu barbár (bloodthirsty and savage person) · fr Turc (a person from Turkey) · la turcicus (a person from Turkey) · fa-ira تُرْک (a person from Turkey) · pl Turczynka (a person from Turkey) · sh barbar (bloodthirsty and savage person) · kk түрік (a person from Turkey) · gl turco (a person from Turkey) · ja トルコ人 (a person from Turkey) · ba төрөк (a person from Turkey) · ro vandal (bloodthirsty and savage person) · ro turc (a person from Turkey) · lt turkė (a person from Turkey) · ro barbar (bloodthirsty and savage person) · sh Tȕrkinja (a person from Turkey) · ko 튀르크인 (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · pt turco (a person from Turkey) · gl turca (a person from Turkey) · ko 튀르크 사람 (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · da tyrk (a person from Turkey) · eo turkino (a person from Turkey) · mk Турчинка (a person from Turkey) · mn түрэг (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · lv turciete (a person from Turkey) · fi barbaari (bloodthirsty and savage person) · pl Turek (a person from Turkey) · nl Turkse (a person from Turkey) · lv turks (a person from Turkey) · ro turcoaică (a person from Turkey) · sah туурак (a person from Turkey) · ug تۈرك (a person from Turkey) · pt turca (a person from Turkey) · hy թուրք (bloodthirsty and savage person) · prs تُرْک (a person from Turkey) · sh Tùrčīn (a person from Turkey) · hu vandál (bloodthirsty and savage person) · sk Turek (a person from Turkey) · ru турча́нка (a person from Turkey) · sh Ту̀рчӣн (a person from Turkey) · uz turk (a person from Turkey) · ky түрк (a person from Turkey) · sah түүр (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · az türk (a person from Turkey) · tg турк (a person from Turkey) · fi raakalainen (bloodthirsty and savage person) · kmr tirk (a person from Turkey) · el Τούρκος (a person from Turkey) · ru ванда́л (bloodthirsty and savage person) · cmn 突厥人 (a speaker of the various Turkic languages) · lt turkas (a person from Turkey) · ota تركی (a person from Turkey) · he טוּרְקִי (a person from Turkey) · grc Τοῦρκος (a person from Turkey) · sl Túrkinja (a person from Turkey) · bn তুর্কি (a speaker of the various Turkic languages)
From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ẅr²ẅk²). See Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k for more.