ülke
country (country, nation)
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
[yl̪ˈcɛ]
Etymology
In summary
From Ottoman Turkish اولكه, اولكا (ülke), from Proto-Turkic *üle- (“to divide”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ülkä, “administrative region”); Kazakh өлке (ölke), Kyrgyz өлкө (ölkö, “country, land”), Kumyk уьлке (ülke, “country”), Uzbek oʻlka (“region, country”), Uyghur ئۆلكە (ölke, “country; province”), Azerbaijani ölkə (“country”), etc.
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