Definition of "Turkish"
Turkish
proper noun
Quotations
This dictionary for Chaghatay Turkish (although it also contains much material for what the author calls 'Rūmī', i.e. south-western Turkish, above all, Ottoman) is the Sanglakh of an obscure eighteenth-century compiler
2001, C. Edmund Bosworth, editor, A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001, page 97
adjective
not comparable
Of, from, or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language.
Quotations
When a question was asked, would put on a mysterious look. Shake his head. Smoke in silence. Observe, at length, he had doubts. Presided at the council, in state. Swayed a Turkish pipe instead of a scepter. Known to sit with eyes closed ... […]
1896, Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg, Higher Lessons in English: A work on English Grammar and composition, 1st edition, Outlook Verlag GmbH, published 2023, page 557
Quotations
Old Turkish began with the separation, formation and consolidation of the independent Turkish languages.
1982, András Róna-Tas, Chuvash Studies, page 119