noun
Turk
turk
noun
1
A member of the Turkic-speaking peoples, or specifically an ethnic Turk from Anatolia.
"His grandmother was a Turk who emigrated from Istanbul in the 1960s."
How to Use Turk
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA person from Turkey or of Turkish ethnic background.
Word Forms
more Turk comparative, Turks plural, most Turk superlative
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Etymology
From Old French Turc, ultimately from Old Turkic tü rk via Persian and Byzantine Greek.