turkmen

/ˈtɜːk.mən/

turkmen means of, from, or pertaining to Turkmenistan, the Turkmen people or the Turkmen language.

turkmen is pronounced /ˈtɜːk.mən/.

Etymology

The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.

adj

Of, from, or pertaining to Turkmenistan, the Turkmen people or the Turkmen language.

name

A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.

noun

A person from Turkmenistan or of Turkmen descent.e.g.“The conquest took 16 years and ended in 1885 in a battle with the Afghans on the banks of the Murghab. During this period, the Turkmens offered the Russians stubborn resistance […]” — 2005, Chahryar Adle, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, page 316:

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