TURKEY (country)
ADJECTIVES
► MAHOMETAN Turkish → 1600 obs.
► TURCIAN belonging to Turks or Turkey; Turkish → 1576 obs.
► TURCIC Turkish → 1661 obs.
► TURCOPHIL tending to favour Turkey or the Turks → 1895
► TURCOPHONE speaking Turkish → 1934
► TURKESCO Turkish → 1584 obs.
► TURKESE Turkish → 1400 obs.
NOUNS
► TURCISM Turkish principles and practice → 1581 obs.
► TURCOMANIA ► TURKOMANIA a rage for Turkish manners or customs; excessive favour for Turkish policy, etc. → 1834
► TURCOPHILIA a favouring Turkey or the Turks → 1908
NOUNS – PERSON
► ABDUL 1. a Turk; Turks collectively → c1890 Eng. sl.
2. a nickname for a Turkish soldier, esp. during World War I → 1915 sl.
► ABDULLAH a nickname for a Turkish soldier, esp. during World War I → 1915 Aust. sl.
► ARAB any dark-complexioned person, esp. if belonging to a group traditionally considered to be somewhat excitable or primitive in emotional matters; a Jew or a Turk → 20C Amer. sl.
► BASHAW a Turkish governor; a title of honour and command amongst the Turks → 1534
► BASHI-BAZOUK a mercenary soldier belonging to the skirmishing or irregular troops of the Turkish army; notorious for their lawlessness, plundering, and savage brutality → 1859
► BASSA an earlier form of the Turkish military title, ‘Bashaw’; a Turkish commander → 1717
► BEG a bey, a Turkish governor; now only used as a part of Eastern names → 1686 obs.
► BEG BEG the chief officer of a province in Turkey → 1687
► BEGLERBEG the chief governor of a province among the Turks; he is also called a bashaw of three tails, from having three ensigns, trimmed with horse—tails, as the mark of his dignity → 1586
► BEY a Turkish governor of a province or district; also, a title of rank → 1589
► BIMBASHI a Turkish military captain or commander; in Egypt, an English officer in the service of the Khedive → 1819
► GAWAR ► GIAOUR a Turkish term of reproach for non-Muslims, esp. Christians → 1589
► JACKO ► JACKY a Turkish soldier → 1910s Aust. sl.
► JOHNNY a Turk; the Turkish army → World War I Amer. sl.
► SICK MAN applied during the latter part of the 19th century to the Sultan of Turkey → 1853
► TURCO a Turk → 1909
► TURCOPHIL a person who favours Turkey → 1876
► TURCOPHOBE a person who fears or dislikes the Turks → 1896
► TURCOPHOBIST a person who fears or dislikes the Turks → 1877
► TURKERY Turks’ collectively → 1878
► TURKESS a female Turk → 1590
► TURKISHER a Turk → 1607 obs.
► WALI ► WALY the governor of a Turkish province → 1811
► YOUNG TURK in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: a Turkish person influenced by Western values and ideas; spec. a member of a nationalist reform movement in the Ottoman Empire seeking to introduce Western values and ideas and establish a constitutional monarchy; usually in plural → 1876
► YUZBASHI a captain in the Turkish army; a first lieutenant in the Turkish navy → 1876
► ZAIM formerly, in the feudal system of Turkey, a chief who supported a mounted militia bearing his name → 1807
► ZAPTIEH a Turkish policeman → 1869
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