Turkism

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Turkism

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From Turk + -ism. Compare earlier Turcism.

noun Turkisms

  1. countable, uncountable Turkish culture, religion and tradition. Joseph's enthusiasm for promoting new German opera resulted in Mozart's The Escape from the Seraglio, the opera's jokey Turkism itself an indicator of the Ottomans' declining threat status.
  2. countable, rhetoric, uncountable A Turkish word, or a Turkish-derived word, used in a language not related to Turkish.

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noun Turkish culture, religion and tradition

Françaisturcisme

noun word or idiom of the Turkish language

DeutschTurzismus
Русскийтюрки́зм tjurkízm

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"Turkism." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/turkism. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{turkism_2026,
  title = {Turkism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/turkism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}