Türkman

See also: türkman and Turkman

English

Noun

Türkman (countable and uncountable, plural Türkmans or Türkmen)

1. Rare spelling of Turkman.
   • 1842, Eli Smith, “Moral and Religious Condition of Western Asia”, in Missionary Sermons and Addresses, New York, N.Y.: Saxton & Miles, […], page 27:

     The wild Kürd and Türkman, wandering predatory shepherds, pitch their tents there;

   • 1983, Anthony Bryer, “Greeks and Turks”, in Tom Winnifrith, Penelope Murray, editors, Greece Old and New, The Macmillan Pres Ltd, →DOI, →ISBN, page 103:

     The tekfur of Trebizond had such a bride, but that means descending from the freedom of the open pastures of the Türkmans through the dark valleys of the Pontos with its agach denizi (sea of trees), where armed men lurked, to the alien and enclosed world of the coastal Greeks: a world fraught with danger.

   • 1976, Eleazar Birnbaum, “Turkish literature through the ages”, in R. M. Savory, editor, Introduction to Islamic Civilisation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81, column 2:

     The most popular poet is, perhaps, Makhdūm-ḳuli (1733–ca. 1782), an educated Türkman, who cultivated the forms of folk poetry in secular love lyrics, and also wrote didactic works and religious songs. […] Local languages were now elevated to independent literary status. The largest among these were Uzbek, Kazak, Türkman and Kirghiz.

   • 1997, Martin van Bruinessen, ““Aslını inkar eden haramzadedir!” The Debate on the Ethnic Identity of the Kurdish Alevis”, in Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Anke Otter-Beaujean, editors, Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: […], Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 10:

     Altan Gokalp has suggested that the terms Türkman and Yörük as used in these documents were not ethnic-linguistic labels but referred to different statuses for purposes of taxation; he believes that neither Yörük nor Türkman were necessarily turcophone (personal communication; cf. Gokalp 1989, 530–532).

Adjective

Türkman (not comparable)

1. Rare spelling of Turkman.
   • 1983, Anthony Bryer, “Greeks and Turks”, in Tom Winnifrith, Penelope Murray, editors, Greece Old and New, The Macmillan Pres Ltd, →DOI, →ISBN, page 101:

     Part of the Seljuk and Türkman success in breaking local economies and sense of Orthodox patrida in Anatolia comes from the way in which they extinguished these local shrines and their lands, for once a pilgrim town has been wrecked it is very difficult to revive.

   • 1995, Charles Ellison Bates, John Moubray Trotter, Central Asia: A Contribution Towards the Better Knowledge of the Topography, Ethnology, Resources, & History of Persia, page 502:

     The Salor tribe, who held the city, had not been in the habit of making marauding incursions into Persia for the purpose of plunder and capturing slaves; but they were charged by Abbāss Mirza with supplying arms to other Türkman tribes, and of receiving Persian prisoners in return, whom they either retained as slaves or sold in Khīva and Bokhāra.

   • 2009, Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd:

     Amir Khan was the leading amir of the Türkman tribe, which had come to regard Azerbaijan as its fief. The other Türkman amirs were incensed not only by his imprisonment, but also by his replacement with an Ustajlu.

Anagrams

• trankum, mankurt, unmarkt