Turkestan

English

Alternative forms

• Turkistan

Etymology

From Persian ترکستان (torkestân), from Middle Persian twlkstʾn' (Turkestān), from twlk' (Turk) + -stʾn' (-estān).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtɜː(ɹ)kɪˈstɑːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtɜɹkɪˈstæn/, /ˈtɜɹkɪˌstæn/

Proper noun

Turkestan

1. (historical) The regions of Central Asia lying between Siberia to the north; Tibet (Xizang) and Xinjiang, China, modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran to the south; the Gobi Desert to the east; and the Caspian Sea to the west.
   • 1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary‎^[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 344:

     Men, women, and children were p'a-hsia (squatting, as a camel squats), to use the Gobi caravan phrase, without a tent among them, but sheltered by big rocks. A little fire was being jealously fed from the small store of fuel they had brought on their pack animals, and they gave us tea. They were gravely merry and pressed on us the courtesy of the good folk of Turkestan. Old men stroked their beards and youths waited on us and women fluttered about the rim of the circle to get a glimpse of the khanum, my wife.

Derived terms

• Chinese Turkestan
• Eastern Turkestan
• Turkestani
• East Turkestan Republic

Translations

a historical region in Asia

• Arabic: تُرْكِسْتَان f (turkistān)
• Armenian: Թուրքեստան (hy) (Tʻurkʻestan)
• Azerbaijani: Türküstan (az)
• Belarusian: Туркеста́н m (Turkjestán)
• Bengali: তুর্কিস্তান (turkistan)
• Bulgarian: Туркеста́н m (Turkestán)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 突厥斯坦 (zh) (Tūjuésītǎn), 土耳其斯坦 (zh) (Tǔ'ěrqísītǎn)

• Czech: Turkestán m
• Finnish: Turkestan
• French: Turkestan (fr) m
• Georgian: თურქესტანი (turkesṭani)
• German: Turkestan (de) n
• Greek: Τουρκεστάν (el) n (Tourkestán)
• Hebrew: טורקסטן m (turkistan)
• Hindi: तुर्किस्तान (hi) m (turkistān), तुरकिस्तान (hi) m (turkistān), तुर्कस्तान (hi) m (turkastān)
• Japanese: トルキスタン (ja) (Torukisutan)
• Kazakh: Түркістан (Türkıstan)
• Korean: 투르키스탄 (Tureukiseutan)
• Kyrgyz: Түркстан (Türkstan)
• Marathi: तुर्केस्तान m (turkestān)
• Middle Persian: twlkstʾn' (Turkestān)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Туркестан (Turkestan)

• Ottoman Turkish: تركستان
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تُرْکِسْتان (torkestân)

• Polish: Turkiestan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Turquestão (pt) m
• Punjabi: تُرْکِسْتَان m (turkistān)
• Russian: Туркеста́н (ru) m (Turkestán)
• Slovak: Turkestan m
• Tajik: Туркистон (tg) (Turkiston)
• Tatar: Төркистан (Törkistan)
• Turkish: Türkistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Türkestan, Türküstan
• Ukrainian: Туркеста́н m (Turkestán)
• Urdu: تُرْکِسْتان m (turkistān)
• Uyghur: تۈركىستان (türkistan)
• Uzbek: Turkiston

See also

Former Russian Turkestan (before 1917 revolution):

• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Turkmenistan
• Tajikistan
• Uzbekistan

Former Chinese Turkestan:

• Tibet (Xizang)
• Xinjiang

Further reading

• “Turkestan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Turkestan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyʁ.kɛs.tɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Turkestan m

1. Turkestan

Derived terms

• Turkestan chinois
• Turkestan occidental
• Turkestan oriental
• Turkestan russe

 

Swedish

Proper noun

Turkestan c (genitive Turkestans)

1. (historical) Turkestan