Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A language family spoken in Eurasia and including Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, and Uighur.
  • adjective Of or relating to Turkic or the peoples who speak Turkic.
  • adjective Turkish.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as Turkish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Turkish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun The language family that includes Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azeri, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tuvan, Altai, Shor, Karakalpak, Khakas, Chuvash and any of the other dozens of languages spoken by Turkic peoples. It may be a subfamily of an Altaic language family.
  • adjective Of or relating to this language group or the people who speak it.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a subfamily of Altaic languages
  • adjective of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic language

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Turk +‎ -ic.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Turkic.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.