ترکیه
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic تُرْكِيَّة (turkiyya, “Turkey”). By surface analysis, ترک (turk / tork) + ـیه (-iyya / -iye).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /tuɾ.kij.ˈja/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰʊɾ.kʰi.jǽ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰoɹ.kʰʲi.jé]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰuɾ.kʰi.jǽ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | turkiyya |
| Dari reading? | turkiya |
| Iranian reading? | torkiye |
| Tajik reading? | turkiya |
Proper noun
ترکیه • (turkiyya / torkiye) (Tajik spelling Туркия)
- Turkey (a country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in western Asia)
Derived terms
- جمهوری ترکیه (jumhūrī-yi turkiyya / jomhuri-ye torkiye)
Descendants
- Dari: تُرْکِیَه (turkiya)
- Iranian Persian: تُرْکِیِه (torkiye)
- Tajik: Туркия (Turkiya)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: तुर्किया (turkiyā)
- Urdu: تُرْکِیَہ (turkiya)
- → Punjabi:
- Shahmukhi script: تُرْکِیَہ (turkiyah)
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “ترکیه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim