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Definition of Turkic

1. Noun. A subfamily of Altaic languages.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic language.

Definition of Turkic

1. a. Turkish.

Definition of Turkic

1. Proper noun. The language family that includes Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azeri, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tuvan, Altai, Shor, Karakalpak, Khakas, Chuvash and any of the other dozens of languages spoken by Turkic peoples. It may be a subfamily of an Altaic language family. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to this language group or the people who speak it. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turkic

Turing test Turing tests Turk's-cap Turk's cap-lily Turk's head Turk's leukocyte Turk cell Turkana Turkeis Turkestan

Turkey Turkey Day Turkey red Turki Turkic Turkic-speaking Turkic language Turkish Turkish Angora Turkish Delight

Turkish Empire Turkish Hizballah Turkish Republic Turkish Sign Language Turkish Van Turkish Vankedisi Turkish alphabet Turkish bath Turkish baths

Literary usage of Turkic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1904)
"... and in other places in turkic, touching our Clothing and our Dying, and things that bee incident to the same, and touching ample vent of our naturall ..."

2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... sold, sent into turkic, and over the Black Sea to Tartaria. His admirable escape and other travels in divers parts of Christendome. this dismall battell ..."

3. Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan by Michael Mandelbaum (1994)
"The Iranians were there first, living in agricultural oasis settlements, surrounded by growing numbers of nomadic and seminomadic turkic and Turko-Mongol ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"As regards the mutual relations of all the groups, little more can now be said than that they fall naturally into two main divisions — Mongolo- turkic and ..."

5. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1890)
"Tar or tur is a turkic word for chief, and the t may be a case ending. It frequently is incorporated in names of the present class. ..."

6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Up en tell me like a man how I gwine ter git yo' shell off! ' " Brer Mud turkic 'low, 'Put me in de mud en rub my back hard ez you kin. ..."

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