1. 1土庫曼人;土庫曼語(也當形容詞用)。國名要說 Turkmenistan「土庫曼」。台灣譯「土庫曼」,中國大陸多作「土库曼」,讀音相同。

    Careful here — the line above describes the country, but the country is , and the word Turkmen means something a bit narrower. Turkmen is the people, the language, and the adjective. A Turkmen is a person of that ethnic group, most of whom live in , though there are also large numbers in Iran and Afghanistan. Turkmen is also the language they speak, which is a Turkic language, related to Turkish but not the same — a Turkish speaker and a Turkmen speaker can catch some of each other's words, the way a Mandarin speaker catches some Cantonese, but they are not simply the same language. And Turkmen works as an adjective: Turkmen carpets, Turkmen music, the Turkmen language. The plural is usually Turkmen too, unchanged, like sheep — "three Turkmen", not "three Turkmens", although you will see Turkmens written sometimes and nobody will you. The older English word for the same people is Turkoman or Turcoman, which you meet in history books and carpet catalogues. This is a low-frequency word. You will meet it in news reports, in geography class, and on the label of an expensive rug, and almost nowhere else. Do not worry about producing it; recognising it is enough.

組成Türk (the Turkic people) plus the Turkic ending -men, which strengthens a word rather than changing it — so roughly "Turks of the Turks", pure Turks. You may read somewhere that the -men part is Persian and the word means "Turk-like". That was the standard explanation for a long time and goes back to medieval writers, but scholars now think it is a folk story rather than the real history.

同家族的字

  • Turkthe same first element — both go back to Old Turkic türk
  • TurkmenistanTurkmen plus -istan, Persian for 'land of' — the land of the Turkmen

原始詞典資料4 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。

Turkmenname詞源 1/ˈtɜːk.mən/

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    A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.

Turkmennoun詞源 1/ˈtɜːk.mən/

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    A person from Turkmenistan or of Turkmen descent.

    • 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 […]
    • Keimir-Ker, a Turkmen from the Tekke clan, led a rebellion against the Persians […]

Turkmenadj詞源 1/ˈtɜːk.mən/

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

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • Turkman

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