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Definition of Turkmen

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Turkmenistan or its people or culture.

2. Noun. A member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas.

3. Noun. A republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991.

4. Noun. The Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman.

Definition of Turkmen

1. Noun. A person from Turkmenistan or of Turkmen descent. ¹

2. Noun. a Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan ¹

3. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Turkmenistan, the Turkmen people or the Turkmen language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turkmen

Turkish coffees Turkish corsair Turkish delight Turkish delights Turkish lira Turkish monetary unit Turkish pizza Turkish saddle Turkish tobacco Turkish towel

Turkishly Turkishness Turkism Turkisms Turkistan Turkmen (current term) Turkmen SSR Turkmen monetary unit Turkmenia Turkmenistan

Turkmens Turko- Turko-Tatar Turkologist Turkologists Turkoman Turkomans Turkomen Turkophone Turks

Literary usage of Turkmen

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

1. Travels in Little-known Parts of Asia Minor by Henry John Van Lennep (1870)
"That can be true, however, only of the Turkmen breed which is sometimes ... We finally purchased a small Turkmen horse, for which we were laughed at by the ..."

2. Impressions of Turkey During Twelve Years' Wanderings by William Mitchell Ramsay (1897)
"Turkmen.—The Turkmen tribes are widely scattered through Anatolia. ... Yet it is certain that Turkmen villages occasionally put off the nomadic habit and ..."

3. After Empire: The Emerging Geopolitics of Central Asia edited by Jed C. Snyder (1997)
"While 90 percent of the soldiers and sergeants in the military units are Turkmen, more than 90 percent of the officers are ethnic Slav. ..."

4. The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy by Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy (1826)
"... ARABS AND Turkmen. Mr. Browne, the traveller, in a journey across Asia Minor, observed a very remarkable people, whom he thus describes. ..."

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