TURKI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Turki mean? 

• TURKI (noun)
  The noun TURKI has 2 senses:

1. any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language

2. a subfamily of Altaic languages

  Familiarity information: TURKI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURKI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Turki" is a kind of...):

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Turki"):

Turk (a native or inhabitant of Turkey)

Azerbaijani (a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan)

Chuvash (a member of a people of Turkic speech living in the Volga region in eastern Russia)

Karakalpak (a member of a Turkic people living near Lake Aral in central Asia)

Kazak; Kazakh (a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan))

Khirghiz; Kirghiz; Kirgiz (a member of a people vast regions of central Siberia)

Turcoman; Turkmen; Turkoman (a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas)

Uighur; Uigur; Uygur (a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas)

Usbeg; Usbek; Uzbak; Uzbeg; Uzbek (a member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas)

Yakut (a member of a Turkic people of northeastern Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A subfamily of Altaic languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar

Hypernyms ("Turki" is a kind of...):

Altaic; Altaic language (a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Turki"):

Turcoman; Turkmen; Turkoman (the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman)

Chagatai; Eastern Turki; Jagatai; Jaghatai (a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan))

Chuvash (the Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash)

Karakalpak (the Turkic language spoken by the Karakalpak)

Khirghiz; Kirghiz; Kirgiz (the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz)

Yakut (the Turkic language spoken by the Yakut)

Uighur; Uigur; Uygur (the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China)

Usbeg; Usbek; Uzbak; Uzbeg; Uzbek (the Turkic language spoken by the Uzbek)

Tatar (the Turkic language spoken by the Tatar living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains)

Kazak; Kazakh (the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak)

Azerbaijani (the Turkic language spoken by the Azerbaijani)

Turkish (a Turkic language spoken by the Turks)