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Turkestan

Today it means: The regions of Central Asia lying between Siberia to the north; Tibet (Xizang) and Xinjiang, China, modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran to the south; the Gobi Desert to the east; and the Caspian Sea to the west. Full definition →

Persian ترکستان

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Persian · derived fromترکستان
English todayTurkestan

From Persian ترکستان (torkestân), from Middle Persian twlkstʾn' (Turkestān), from twlk' (Turk) + -stʾn' (-estān). By surface analysis, Turk + -estan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.