تركيا

Ultimately from Byzantine Greek Τουρκίᾱ (Tourkíā, “Turkey”), itself being Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos) (borrowed into Latin as Turcus (“A Turk, Turkish”), see there for further etymology) with suffix -ίᾱ (-íā).

• IPA^(key): /tur.ki.jaː/, /tur.kij.jaː/

تُرْكِيَا or تُرْكِيَّا • (turkiyā or turkiyyā) f

1. Turkey (a country in Europe and Asia)

• تُرْكِيّ (turkiyy)
• تُرْكِيَّة (turkiyya)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ترك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Semi-learned borrowing from Arabic تُرْكِيَّا (turkiyyā).

• IPA^(key): /tur.kij.ja/, [tʊrˈkij.ja]

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تركيا • (turkiyya) f

1. Turkey (a country in Europe and Asia)

• تركي (turki, “Turkish”)