Turkman
Americannoun
plural
TurkmenOther Word Forms
- Turkmenian adjective
Etymology
Origin of Turkman
First recorded in 1475–85; alteration of Turkoman
Example Sentences
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His real name was Amir Mohammed Saeed Abdul-Rahman al-Mawla, an Iraqi in his mid-40s, born in 1976 and believed to be an ethnic Turkman from the northern Iraqi town of Tel Afar.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022
“They are like migratory birds who make permanent, if makeshift, nests in a faraway land,” one post, about a group of forty Kashmiri men whom Soofi saw living in Old Delhi’s Turkman Gate Bazaar, begins.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 11, 2019
Now Iraqis have a choice of 200 print outlets, 60 radio stations and 30 TV channels in Arabic and also in the Turkman, Syriac and Kurdish languages.
From Reuters • Apr. 2, 2013
It you go talk to any Shi’a, Turkman, Sunni, they have exactly the same concern about the Prime Minister.
From Time • Dec. 21, 2012
The horses now of repute in Asia as Turkman come from the east of the Caspian.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
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