- 1土耳其人。國名是「土耳其」，形容詞 Turkish 是「土耳其的」。注意 Turk（人）和 turkey（火雞）只差一點，但完全無關。
A Turk is a person from Turkey. It is a noun, and it always starts with a capital T, like Japanese or American. There is also an adjective, Turkish, and that is the word people actually use most of the time: Turkish coffee, Turkish food, a Turkish passport. You would say "He is a Turk" or "He is Turkish" — both work, but "He is Turkish" is far more common in ordinary speech. Older writing also uses Turk as an adjective ("the Turk army"), but nobody that now; use Turkish. Now the though-actually part. "Turk" can mean two things that people mix up. It can mean a citizen of the country Turkey — a person with a Turkish passport, whatever their family background. It can also mean someone of Turkish ethnic background, which includes people living in Germany, Bulgaria, Cyprus and elsewhere who have never held a Turkish passport. Usually the situation tells you which one is meant. There is one more thing you should know, because it protects you. In older English books — pirate stories, adventure novels, old newspapers — "the Turk" or "Turks" was often used as an insult, standing for "cruel foreign enemy". You will meet this if you read old literature. That use is dead in modern English, but the word still carries a faint old smell for some readers, which is another reason most people today just say Turkish. There are also two fixed phrases worth knowing: "young Turk" means a young person in an organisation who pushes for change and the older bosses, and it has nothing to do with Turkey any more; and "talk turkey" is a completely different word (the bird) — don't let the spelling confuse you.
組成Comes to English through Old French Turc and Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Toûrkos, from Persian turk, going back through Middle Persian to Old Turkic türk. So the word travelled from Central Asia through Persia and Greece into Europe, and the people it names have called themselves by a form of it for well over a thousand years.
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Turknoun/tɝk/
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA person of an ethnically diverse linguistic group that speaks the Turkic languages.
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A member of a Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to Anatolia (which comprises the bulk of their modern nation-state of Türkiye).
- The people of Matabello, like those of most of the Mahometan villages of East Ceram and Goram, amused me much by their strange ideas concerning the Russian war. They believe that the Russians were not only most thoroughly beaten by the Turks, but were absolutely conquered, and all converted to Islamism! And they can hardly be convinced that such is not the case, and that had it not been for the assistance of France and England, the poor Sultan world have fared ill. Another of their motions is, that the Turks are the largest and strongest people in the world - in fact a race of giants; that they eat enormous quantities of meat, and are a most ferocious and irresistible nation.
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obsoleteA Muslim.
- Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers—if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me—with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players?
- Compare but our manners unto a Turke [translating Mahometan], or a Pagan, and we must needs yeeld unto them[…].
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a Christian horse-archer in Crusader army (Turcopole).
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archaicA bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian.
- Was neuer any Impe so wicked and barbarous, any Turke so vyle and brutishe.
- A sort of primitive barbarity distinguishes the whole; no variety of character appears; and to call a man Turk is to say, that he is jealous, haughty, covetous, ignorant, and lascivious; at the same time that a certain dignity of gait, and magnificence of manners, gives him the appearance of generosity and true greatness of soul.
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A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina.
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A person from Llanelli, Wales.
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A Turkish horse.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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The plum curculio.
Turkadj/tɝk/
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Synonym of Turkic.
- Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country: Kazakh, a Turk language spoken natively by mainly the Kazakh population, has the status of the 'state' language, [...]
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Synonym of Turkish.
Turkname/tɝk/
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A surname.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。