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تُرْكِيّ

Turkish /tʊrˈkijː/

adjectiveB2#3903 most common

Also: Turkic, a Turk (when used as a noun)

Example sentences

هُوَ رَجُلٌ تُرْكِيٌّ.
He is a Turkish man.
أُحِبُّ الطَّعَامَ التُّرْكِيَّ كَثِيرًا.
I like Turkish food a lot.
زُرْتُ إِسْطَنْبُول لِأَتَعَلَّمَ عَنِ الثَّقَافَةِ التُّرْكِيَّةِ.
I visited Istanbul to learn about Turkish culture.
القَهْوَةُ التُّرْكِيَّةُ مَشْهُورَةٌ فِي جَمِيعِ أَنْحَاءِ العَالَمِ.
Turkish coffee is famous all over the world.
تَأَثَّرَتِ اللُّغَةُ العَرَبِيَّةُ بِبَعْضِ الكَلِمَاتِ ذَاتِ الأَصْلِ التُّرْكِيِّ خِلَالَ الحُقْبَةِ العُثْمَانِيَّةِ.
The Arabic language was influenced by some words of Turkish origin during the Ottoman era.
يُعَدُّ الأَدَبُ التُّرْكِيُّ الحَدِيثُ امْتِدَادًا لِتَقَالِيدَ أَدَبِيَّةٍ غَنِيَّةٍ تَمْتَدُّ جُذُورُهَا إِلَى العَهْدِ العُثْمَانِيِّ.
Modern Turkish literature is considered an extension of a rich literary tradition whose roots extend back to the Ottoman era.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeتُرْكِيٌّتُرْكِيُّونَ
Genitiveتُرْكِيٍّتُرْكِيِّينَ
Accusativeتُرْكِيًّاتُرْكِيِّينَ
Vocativeيَا تُرْكِيُّيَا تُرْكِيُّونَ

Word family

تُرْكthe Turks (collective)
أَتْرَاكTurks (plural people)
تُرْكِيَّةTurkey (the country); also the feminine adjective form
تَتْرِيكTurkification

Etymology

The word combines تُرْك, the Arabic form of the ethnonym 'Turk', with the nisba suffix ي, which turns a noun into an adjective of relation or origin. Arabic borrowed تُرْك directly from the self-name of the Turkic peoples rather than developing it from an Arabic root. Because Turkic languages are not Indo-European, there is no PIE root behind this word.

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