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Name of Turkey
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceThe English name for Turkey is derived from the Medieval Latin Turchia (c.1369). The name for Turkey in the Turkish language, Türkiye, subdivides into two words: Türk, meaning "strong" in Old Turkish and usually signifying the inhabitants of Turkey or a member of the Turkish or Turkic peoples, a later form of "tie-le" (铁勒) or "tu-jue" (突厥), name given by the Chinese to the people living south of the Altay Mountains of Central Asia as early as 177 BC; and the abstract suffix -iye, which means "owner" or "related to". The first recorded use of the term "Türk" or "Türük" as an autonym is attested in the Orkhon inscriptions of the Köktürks (Blue Turks) of Central Asia (c. 8th century CE)....
In different languages
Name of Turkey in different languages derive essentially from the word "Turk", combined with suffixes that give the meaning of "owner", "land of" or "related to".| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Albanian | Turqia |
| Arabic | تركيا - Transliteration: Turkīya |
| Armenian | Թուրքիա - Transliteration: Turk'ia |
| Azerbaijani | Türkiyə |
| Bulgarian | Турция - Transliteration: Turtsiya, Turcija |
| Chinese | 土耳其 |
| Croatian | Turska |
| Czech | Turecko |
| Danish | Tyrkiet |
| Dutch | Turkije |
| Esperanto | Turkio or Turkujo (archaic) |
| Faroese | Turkaland (land of Turks) |
| Finnish | Turkki |
| French | Turquie |
| Georgian | თურქეთი - Transliteration: Turk'eti |
| German | Türkei |
| Greek | Τουρκία - Transliteration: Turkia |
| Hebrew | תורכיה - Transliteration: Turkiya |
| Hungarian | Törökország |
| Icelandic | Tyrkland |
| Indonesia | Тurki |
| Interlingua | Turchia |
| Italian | Turchia |
| Japanese | トルコ - Transliteration: Toruko |
| Korean | 터키 - Transliteration: Tŏki |
| Kurdish | Tirkiyê |
| Latin | Turcia |
| Macedonian | Турција - Transliteration: Turcija, Turtsiya |
| Persian | ترکیه - Transliteration: Torkīye |
| Polish | Turcja |
| Portuguese | Turquia |
| Romanian | Turcia |
| Russian | Турция - Transliteration: Turtsiya, Turcija |
| Serbian | Турска - Transliteration: Turska |
| Spanish | Turquía |
| Swedish | Turkiet |
| Syriac | ܬܘܪܟܝܐ - Transliteration: Turkia |
| Turkish | Türkiye |
| Ukrainian | Туреччина - Transliteration: Turechchina, Tureččina |
| Zazaki | Tırkiye |
See also
References
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