Türkiye

Türkiye
Meaning

  1. Turkey (a country located in Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia)
  2. a female given name

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
Tür‧ki‧ye
Pronounced as (IPA)
[t̪ýɾ.ci.jɛ]
Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تركیه (Türkiye), توركیه (Türkiye, late spelling), ultimately from Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian ترک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠Turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). By surface analysis, Türk + -iye.

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