Dictionary Definition
turkey
Noun
1 large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail;
widely domesticated for food [syn: Meleagris
gallopavo]
2 a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the
Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923
[syn: Republic
of Turkey]
3 a person who does something thoughtless or
annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway" [syn: joker]
4 flesh of large domesticated fowl usually
roasted
5 an event that fails badly or is totally
ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting
was a dud as far as new business was concerned" [syn: bomb, dud]
6 wild turkey of Central America and northern
South America [syn: ocellated
turkey, Agriocharis
ocellata]
User Contributed Dictionary
See also: turkey
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈtʌɽkɪj/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)ki
Proper noun
- Country at the intersection of Europe and Asia on the Mediterranean. Official name: Republic of Turkey.
Translations
- Arabic: (Turkíyya)
- Armenian: Թուրքիա
- Basque: Turkia
- Bosnian: Turska
- Breton: Turkia
- Bulgarian: Турция (Túrtsija)
- Catalan: Turquia
- Chinese:
- Croatian: Turska
- Czech: Turecko
- Danish: Tyrkiet
- Dutch: Turkije
- Esperanto: Turkio, Turkujo
- Estonian: Türgi
- Finnish: Turkki
- French: Turquie
- Georgian: თურქეთი
- German: Türkei
- Greek: Τουρκία (Turcía)
- Hebrew: טורקיה (Turkíya) , also תורכיה (Turkíya)
- Hungarian: Törökország
- Ido: Turki
- Interlingua: Turchia
- Irish: an-Tuirc
- Italian: Turchia
- Iceland: Tyrkland
- Japanese: トルコ、土耳古 (Toruko)
- Korean: 터키 (Teoki)
- Kurdish:
- Lithuanian: Turkija
- Macedonian: Турција (Túrtsija)
- Malay: Turki
- Maltese: it-Turkija
- Norwegian: Tyrkia
- Persian: (Torkīye)
- Polish: Turcja
- Portuguese: Turquia
- Romanian: Turcia
- Russian: Турция (Túrtsija)
- Serbian:
- Sicilian: Turchìa
- Slovak: Turecko
- Slovene: Turčija
- Spanish: Turquía
- Swahili: Uturuki (noun 11)
- Swedish: Turkiet
- Thai: modern (Turakī); ancient (Rum Toraki)
- Turkish: Türkiye
- Ukrainian: Туреччина (Tureččyna)
- Vietnamese: Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ
- Yiddish: טערקײַ (Terkay)
See also
- turkey (a large bird)
Extensive Definition
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Other
turkey in Silesian: Turcyjo
turkey in Afrikaans: Turkye
turkey in Tosk Albanian: Türkei
turkey in Arabic: تركيا
turkey in Aragonese: Turquía
turkey in Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE):
ܛܘܪܩܝܐ
turkey in Aromanian: Turchia
turkey in Asturian: Turquía
turkey in Guarani: Tuykia
turkey in Azerbaijani: Türkiyə
Respublikası
turkey in Bengali: তুরস্ক
turkey in Min Nan: Türkiye
turkey in Belarusian: Турцыя
turkey in Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa):
Турцыя
turkey in Tibetan: ཐུར་ཀེས
turkey in Bosnian: Turska
turkey in Breton: Turkia
turkey in Bulgarian: Турция
turkey in Catalan: Turquia
turkey in Chuvash: Турци
turkey in Cebuano: Turkey
turkey in Czech: Turecko
turkey in Welsh: Twrci
turkey in Danish: Tyrkiet
turkey in Pennsylvania German: Turkie
turkey in German: Türkei
turkey in Dhivehi: ތުރުކީވިލާތް
turkey in Lower Sorbian: Turkojska
turkey in Estonian: Türgi
turkey in Modern Greek (1453-): Τουρκία
turkey in Spanish: Turquía
turkey in Esperanto: Turkio
turkey in Basque: Turkia
turkey in Persian: ترکیه
turkey in Faroese: Turkaland
turkey in French: Turquie
turkey in Western Frisian: Turkije
turkey in Irish: An Tuirc
turkey in Manx: Yn Turkee
turkey in Scottish Gaelic: An Tuirc
turkey in Galician: Turquía - Türkiye
turkey in Korean: 터키
turkey in Armenian: Թուրքիա
turkey in Hindi: तुर्की
turkey in Upper Sorbian: Turkowska
turkey in Croatian: Turska
turkey in Ido: Turkia
turkey in Iloko: Turkia
turkey in Bishnupriya: তুরস্ক
turkey in Indonesian: Turki
turkey in Interlingua (International Auxiliary
Language Association): Turchia
turkey in Interlingue: Turcia
turkey in Ossetian: Турк
turkey in Icelandic: Tyrkland
turkey in Italian: Turchia
turkey in Hebrew: טורקיה
turkey in Javanese: Turki
turkey in Pampanga: Turkey
turkey in Georgian: თურქეთი
turkey in Kashmiri: तुर्किये
turkey in Kashubian: Tëreckô
turkey in Kazakh: Түркия
turkey in Cornish: Turki
turkey in Kirghiz: Түркия Республикасы
turkey in Swahili (macrolanguage): Uturuki
turkey in Haitian: Tiki
turkey in Kurdish: Komara Tirkiyê
turkey in Ladino: Turkiya
turkey in Latin: Turcia
turkey in Latvian: Turcija
turkey in Luxembourgish: Tierkei
turkey in Lithuanian: Turkija
turkey in Ligurian: Turchia
turkey in Limburgan: Turkije
turkey in Hungarian: Törökország
turkey in Macedonian: Турција
turkey in Malayalam: തുര്ക്കി
turkey in Marathi: तुर्कस्तान
turkey in Malay (macrolanguage): Turki
turkey in Min Dong Chinese: Tū-ī-gì
turkey in Mongolian: Турк
nah:Turquitlān
turkey in Nauru: Turkey
turkey in Fijian: Turkkea
turkey in Dutch: Turkije
turkey in Dutch Low Saxon: Turkije
turkey in Newari: टर्की
turkey in Japanese: トルコ
turkey in Neapolitan: Turchía
turkey in Norwegian: Tyrkia
turkey in Norwegian Nynorsk: Tyrkia
turkey in Narom: Turtchie
turkey in Novial: Turkia
turkey in Occitan (post 1500): Turquia
turkey in Uzbek: Turkiya
turkey in Pushto: ترکيه
turkey in Low German: Törkie
turkey in Polish: Turcja
turkey in Portuguese: Turquia
turkey in Crimean Tatar: Türkiye
turkey in Romanian: Turcia
turkey in Vlax Romani: Turkiya
turkey in Quechua: Turkiya
turkey in Russian: Турция
turkey in Northern Sami: Durka
turkey in Sanskrit: तुर्किये
turkey in Sardinian: Turchia
turkey in Scots: Turkey
turkey in Albanian: Turqia
turkey in Sicilian: Turchìa
turkey in Simple English: Turkey
turkey in Slovak: Turecko
turkey in Slovenian: Turčija
turkey in Somali: Turki
turkey in Serbian: Турска
turkey in Serbo-Croatian: Turska
turkey in Finnish: Turkki
turkey in Swedish: Turkiet
turkey in Tagalog: Turkiya
turkey in Tamil: துருக்கி
turkey in Tatar: Төркия
turkey in Telugu: టర్కీ
turkey in Tetum: Turkia
turkey in Thai: ประเทศตุรกี
turkey in Vietnamese: Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ
turkey in Tajik: Туркия
turkey in Turkish: Türkiye
turkey in Turkmen: Türkiýe Jumhuriyäti
turkey in Udmurt: Турция
turkey in Ukrainian: Туреччина
turkey in Urdu: ترکی
turkey in Venetian: Turchia
turkey in Volapük: Türkän
turkey in Võro: Türgü
turkey in Vlaams: Turkeye
turkey in Waray (Philippines): Turkeya
turkey in Wolof: Tirki
turkey in Wu Chinese: 土尔基
turkey in Yiddish: טערקיי
turkey in Contenese: 土耳其
turkey in Dimli: Tırkiya
turkey in Samogitian: Torkėjė
turkey in Chinese: 土耳其
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bantam,
Cornish hen, banty,
barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, bomb, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bust, caille, canard, caneton, capon, chanticleer, chapon, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, dindon, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dull thud, dunghill
fowl, faisan, fizzle, flat failure, flop, floperoo, fowl, frost, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl,
guinea hen, hen, hen turkey,
lemon, oie, partlet, partridge, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, pullet, quail, roaster, rooster, setting hen, spring
chicken, squab, stewing
chicken, tom, tom turkey,
total loss, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, volaille, washout, wild
duck