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Turkman

[ turk-muhn ]

noun

, plural Turk·men.
  1. a native or inhabitant of Turkmenistan.


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Other Words From

  • Turk·me·ni·an [turk-, mee, -nee-, uh, n], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Turkman1

First recorded in 1475–85; alteration of Turkoman
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Example Sentences

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.

State TV quoted the chief justice of Fars province, Kazem Mousavi as saying on Saturday: “The retaliation sentence against Navid Afkari, the killer of Hassan Turkman, was carried out this morning in Adelabad prison in Shiraz.”

“I hit twice, once and then again,” Afkari was shown saying with a stabbing gesture during a police reconstruction of the killing of the middle-aged victim, Hassan Turkman, a water company security guard.

From Reuters

Born into an Iraqi Turkman family in the once ISIS-controlled town of Tel Afar, he is one of the few non-Arabs to have ascended into a high-profile position -- driven not only by his lineage but by his background as an Islamic scholar, having earned a degree in sharia law from the University of Mosul.

Hajji Abdullah, an ethnic Turkman from Tal Afar, an area near Sinjar, was believed to be the highest IS judicial official in the area and so stepped in to play a key role in distributing slaves.

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