TURKMEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Turkmen mean? 

• TURKMEN (noun)
  The noun TURKMEN has 3 senses:

1. a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas

2. a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991

3. the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman

  Familiarity information: TURKMEN used as a noun is uncommon.

• TURKMEN (adjective)
  The adjective TURKMEN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Turkmenistan or its people or culture

  Familiarity information: TURKMEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURKMEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Turcoman; Turkmen; Turkoman

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

Turki (any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Turkmen; Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Turkmen"):

Ashkhabad; capital of Turkmenistan (the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan)

Kara Kum; Qara Qum; Turkestan Desert (a desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea)

Holonyms ("Turkmen" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Holonyms ("Turkmen" is a member of...):

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Turcoman; Turkmen; Turkoman

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

Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar (a subfamily of Altaic languages)

• TURKMEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Turkmenistan or its people or culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Turkmenistan (a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991)