Turkish

alternative rare Türkish

1. The official language of Turkey, the Republic of Cyprus (alongside Greek) and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

   Synonyms: Anatolian Turkic, Anatolian Turkish

2. Synonym of Turkic.

   M.A. Òerbak considers Chaghatay Turkish a period of Uzbek.

   2003, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Culture and Learning in Islam, page 256

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   This dictionary for Chaghatay Turkish (although it also contains much material for what the author calls 'Rūmī', i.e. south-western Turkish, above all, Ottoman) is the Sanglakh of an obscure eighteenth-century compiler

   2001, C. Edmund Bosworth, editor, A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001, page 97

   [...] these works include stories of the battles the Turks fought against the Chinese, a variety of legends, and numerous specimens of verse (found mostly in Chinese translation) written in Uyghur Turkish.

   2011, Talat S. Halman, Jayne L. Warner, A Millennium of Turkish Literature, page 6

   And my uncle always shouted: “Uzbek Turkish is very close to our Turkish language!”

   2011, Elif Batuman, The Possessed

   It was Navai who through his poetry almost single-handedly turned his native Chaghatay Turkish into a literary language.

   2022, Dominic Lieven, In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History

   Synonyms: Turkic

alternative rare Türkish

1. not comparableOf, from, or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language.

   The SNC has broad support, with a strong Sunni Muslim component and is backed by the Turkish government.

   2011 December 31, “Syrian opposition group: More than 5,800 died in 2011”, in CNN

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   When a question was asked, would put on a mysterious look. Shake his head. Smoke in silence. Observe, at length, he had doubts. Presided at the council, in state. Swayed a Turkish pipe instead of a scepter. Known to sit with eyes closed ...[…]

   1896, Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg, Higher Lessons in English: A work on English Grammar and composition, 1st edition, Outlook Verlag GmbH, published 2023, →ISBN, page 557

   Synonyms: Anatolian Turkic, Anatolian Turkish, Turk

2. not comparableSynonym of Turkic.

   [...] in Mongolian and some Turkish languages

   1962, Gerard Clauson, Turkish and Mongolian Studies, page 37

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   Old Turkish began with the separation, formation and consolidation of the independent Turkish languages.

   1982, András Róna-Tas, Chuvash Studies, page 119

   This is openly a characteristics of Chaghatay and other Eastern Turkish languages and dialects.

   2007, László Károly, Turcology in Turkey: selected papers, page 458

   In the Timurid empire, the Chaghatay Turkish language, which became the standard of the Timurid court, was part of the eastern branch of Turkic languages.

   2019, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Hammer and Anvil

   Synonyms: Turkic