Turkana

American  

[toor-kah-nuh] / tʊərˈkɑ nə /

noun

PLURAL

Turkanas,

PLURAL

Turkana

1. a member of a seminomadic people of northwestern Kenya and bordering areas of Uganda.

2. the Nilotic language of the Turkana.

3. Formerly Rudolf.  Lake. a lake in E Africa, in NE Kenya. 185 miles (298 km) long; 3,500 sq. mi. (9,100 sq. km).

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Turkana British  

/ tɜːˈkɑːnə /

noun

1. Former name: Lake Rudolf.  a long narrow lake in E Africa, in the Great Rift Valley. Area: 7104 sq km (2743 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals astonishing evidence of this long-lived technological tradition in Kenya's Turkana Basin.

From Science Daily

As the sun set over Lake Turkana, a mother sobbed and threw flowers into the greenish-blue water to remember her teenage daughter who had drowned trying to reach Kenya via a new route being used by people smugglers.

From BBC

A female smuggler in Kenya confirmed to the BBC that Lake Turkana was increasingly being used as an illegal crossing for the migrants.

From BBC

With Kenya having stepped up patrols on its roads, smugglers are now turning to Lake Turkana to get migrants into the country.

From BBC

She plays 13-year-old Nawi, the eponymous heroine of the coming-of-age film set in Turkana county, a rural area which borders Uganda and where the UN says one in four girls are married before they are 18.

From BBC