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Turk.

A person of an ethnically diverse linguistic group that speaks the Turkic languages.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/tɝk/General-American/tɜːk/Received-Pronunciation

  1. A person of an ethnically diverse linguistic group that speaks the Turkic languages.

  2. A member of a Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to Anatolia (which comprises the bulk of their modern nation-state of Türkiye).

  3. A Muslim.

    obsolete

  4. a Christian horse-archer in Crusader army (Turcopole).

  5. A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian.

    archaic

  6. A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina.

  7. A person from Llanelli, Wales.

  8. A Turkish horse.

  9. The plum curculio.

Where this word comes from

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.

adj/tɝk/General-American/tɜːk/Received-Pronunciation

  1. Synonym of Turkic.

  2. Synonym of Turkish.

Where this word comes from

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.

name/tɝk/General-American/tɜːk/Received-Pronunciation

  1. A surname.

Where this word comes from

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.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.