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{{also|Turk.|Türk|Túrk|turk|türk}}
==English==

===Alternative forms===
* {{l|en|Türk}}
* {{l|en|Túrk}} {{qualifier|obsolete}}
* {{l|en|Turke}} {{qualifier|obsolete}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|en|enm|Turke}}, {{m|enm|Turk}}, from {{der|en|fro|Turc}}, from {{der|en|ML.|Turcus}}, from {{der|en|gkm|Τοῦρκος}}, from {{der|en|fa-cls|تُرْک}}, from {{der|en|pal|tr=twlk'|ts=turk}}, from {{der|en|otk|𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜}}. See {{m+|trk-pro|*tür(ü)k}} for more.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/tɝk/|a=GenAm}}
* {{IPA|en|/tɜːk/|a=RP}}
* {{audio|en|En-au-Turk.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɜː(ɹ)k|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# A speaker of the various [[Turkic]] languages.
# A person from [[Turkey]] or of [[Turkish]] ethnic descent. {{century|12}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[Muslim]]. {{century|16|18}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet|act=3|scene=2|page=268|column=2|passage=Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers—if the rest of my fortunes turn '''Turk''' with me—with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players?}}
#* {{RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes|chapter=12|book=II|passage=Compare but our manners unto a '''Turke''' {{transterm|frm|mahometan|Mahometan}}, or a Pagan, and we must needs yeeld unto them{{nb...}}.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:William Chillingworth|title=The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation|year=1637|passage=It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a '''Turk''' would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian.}}
# a [[Christian]] horse-archer in Crusader army (Turcopole).
# {{lb|en|archaic}} A bloodthirsty and savage person; [[vandal]]; [[barbarian]].<ref>{{R:OED2}}</ref> {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1579|author=John Lyly|title=Euphues|pageurl=http://books.google.am/books?id=nc45AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22any%20Turke%22%20euphues&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q=%22any%20Turke%22%20euphues&f=false|page=42
|passage=Was neuer any Impe so wicked and barbarous, any '''Turke''' so vyle and brutishe.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1760|editor=Tobias George Smollett|title=The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 9|pageurl=http://books.google.am/books?id=zr8PAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22at%20the%20fame%20time%20that%20a%20certain%20dignity%20of%20gait%2C%20and%20magnificence%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q=%22to%20call%20a%20man%20a%20Turk%22&f=false|page=20
|passage=A sort of primitive barbarity distinguishes the whole; no variety of character appears; and to call a man '''Turk''' is to say, that he is jealous, haughty, covetous, ignorant, and lascivious; at the same time that a certain dignity of gait, and magnificence of manners, gives him the appearance of generosity and true greatness of soul.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1987|author=Anne Mozley|title=Essays from "Blackwood"| page=21| passage=A bad temper does seem often favourable to health. The man who has been a '''Turk''' all his life lives long to plague all about him.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1906|author=w:George Meredith|title=One of our conquerors|pageurl=http://books.google.am/books?id=JbZEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22a+creature+that+is+not+clean-washed+of+the+Turk+in+him%22&dq=%22a+creature+that+is+not+clean-washed+of+the+Turk+in+him%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EIWcUru8OILpywPPvoCIDw&redir_esc=y|page=292
|passage=As much as the wilfully or naturally blunted, the intelligently honest have to learn by touch: only, their understandings cannot meanwhile be so wholly obtuse as our society's matron, acting to please the tastes of the civilized man—a creature that is not clean-washed of the '''Turk''' in him—barbarously exacts.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1928|author=Luṫfī Levonian|title=Moslem mentality: a discussion of the presentation of Christianity to Moslems|url=http://www.google.am/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22call+a+man+turk%22+%22Moslem+mentality%22#hl=en&q=%22To+call+a+man+'Turk'+was+regarded+as%22&safe=off&tbm=bks|page=85
|passage=They regarded the very word '''Turk''' as synonymous with ignorance, impoliteness, and idiocy. To call a man ''''Turk'''' was regarded as a great dishonour to him.}}
# A member of a [[Mestee]] group in South Carolina.
# A person from [[Llanelli]], Wales.
# A Turkish [[horse]].
# The [[plum curculio]].

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|Grand Turk Island|Turk's head|out-paramour the Turk|Turkdom|Turkish|Turkism|Turkland|Turkless|Turklike|Turkness|Turkwise|Young Turk}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|a person from Turkey}}
* Afrikaans: {{t|af|Turk}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|turk|m}}, {{t+|sq|turkeshë|f}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|تُرْكِيّ|m}}, {{t+|ar|تُرْكِيَّة|f}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|թուրք}}
* Aromanian: {{t|rup|turcu|m}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|türk}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|төрөк}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|ту́рак|m}}, {{t|be|турча́нка|f|}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|তুর্কি}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|ту́рчин|m}}, {{t+|bg|турки́ня|f}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|turc|m}}, {{t+|ca|turca|f}}
* Cherokee: {{t|chr|ᎠᎬᎾ}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|土耳其人|tr=Tǔ'ěrqírén}}
* Coptic: {{t|cop|ⲧⲟⲩⲝ|m}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|Turek|m}}, {{t+|cs|Turkyně|f}}
* Danish: {{t|da|tyrk|c}}, {{t+|da|tyrker|c}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|Turk|m}}, {{t+|nl|Turkse|f}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|turko}} {{qualifier|man or woman}}, {{t|eo|turkino}} {{qualifier|woman}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|türklane}}
* Faroese: {{t|fo|turkur|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|turkkilainen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|Turc|m}}, {{t+|fr|Turque|f}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|turco|m}}, {{t|gl|turca|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|თურქი}}
* German: {{t+|de|Türke|m}}, {{t+|de|Türkin|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|Τούρκος|m}}, {{t+|el|Τουρκάλα|f}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|Τοῦρκος|m}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|तुर्क}}, {{t+|hi|तुर्की}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|török}}
* Icelandic: {{t|is|Tyrki|m}}
* Indonesian: {{t|id|orang turki}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|Turcach|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|turco|m}}, {{t+|it|turca|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|トルコ人|tr=torukojin}}
* Kalmyk: {{t|xal|түрг}}
* Kannada: {{t+|kn|ತುರುಕ}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|түрік|sc=Cyrl}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|튀르키예인}}, {{t|ko|터키인}}, {{t|ko|튀르키예 사람}}, {{t|ko|터키 사람}}
* Kurdish:
*: Northern Kurdish: {{t+|kmr|tirk}}, {{t+|kmr|turk}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t+|ky|түрк|sc=Cyrl}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|turks|m}}, {{t|lv|turciete|f}}
* Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|turkas|m}}, {{t+|lt|turkė|f}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|Турчин|m}}, {{t|mk|Турчинка|f}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|Turkagh|m}}
* Mingrelian: {{t|xmf|თურქი}}, {{t|xmf|თანთარი}}
* Mongolian: {{t|mn|турк}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|tyrker|m}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|tyrk|m}}, {{t+|nn|tyrkar|m}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|تركی|tr=türkî}}
* Pashto: {{t+|ps|ترک|m|tr=tork}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|ترک|tr=tork}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|Turek|m}}, {{t+|pl|Turczynka|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|turco|m}}, {{t|pt|turca|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|turc|m}}, {{t+|ro|turcoaică|f}}, {{t+|ro|turcă|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ту́рок|m}}, {{t+|ru|турча́нка|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|Ту̀рчӣн|m}}, {{t|sh|Ту̏ркиња|f}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|Tùrčīn|m}}, {{t|sh|Tȕrkinja|f}}
* Slovak: {{t+|sk|Turek|m}}, {{t+|sk|Turkyňa|f}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|Túrek|m}}, {{t|sl|Túrkinja|f}}
* Southern Altai: {{t|alt|тӱрк}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|turco|m}}, {{t+|es|turca|f}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|Mturuki}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|turk|c}}
* Tajik: {{t|tg|турк|sc=Cyrl}}
* Tatar: {{t+|tt|төрек|sc=Cyrl}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|Türk}}
* Turkmen: {{t|tk|Türk}}
* Tuvan: {{t|tyv|турк}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|ту́рок|m|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|uk|турча́нка|f|sc=Cyrl}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|ترک|tr=turk}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|تۈرك}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|turk}}
* Yakut: {{t|sah|турок}}, {{t|sah|туурак}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|טערק|m|sc=Hebr}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|a speaker of the various Turkic languages}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|թյուրք}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|তুর্কি}}
* Buryat: {{t|bua|тюрк}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|突厥人|tr=Tūjuérén}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|turkinsukuinen}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|तुर्क|m}}, {{t+|hi|तुर्की}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|türk}}
* Kalmyk: {{t|xal|тюрк}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|투르크인}}, {{t|ko|튀르크인}}, {{t|ko|돌궐인}} {{qualifier|Göktürk}}, {{t|ko|투르크 사람}}, {{t|ko|튀르크 사람}}, {{t|ko|돌궐 사람}} {{qualifier|Göktürk}}
* Mongolian: {{t+|mn|түрэг}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|تركی|tr=türkî}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|turc|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|тюрк|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|turco|m}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|Türk}}
* Tuvan: {{t|tyv|түрк}}
* Yakut: {{t|sah|түүр}}, {{t|sah|тюрк}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|Muslim}}

{{trans-top|bloodthirsty and savage person}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|թուրք}}, {{t+|hy|բարբարոս}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|barbaari}}, {{t+|fi|raakalainen}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|barbár}}, {{t+|hu|vandál}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|bárbaro|m}}, {{t+|pt|selvagem|m|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|barbar|m}}, {{t+|ro|vandal|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ва́рвар|m}}, {{t+|ru|ванда́л|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+|sh|barbar}}, {{t+|sh|varvarin}}, {{t+|sh|vandal}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# {{synonym of|en|Turkic}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Children in the Anthropocene|author=Karen Malone|year=2017|passage=Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country: Kazakh, a '''Turk''' language spoken natively by mainly the Kazakh population, has the status of the 'state' language, [...]}}
# {{synonym of|en|Turkish}}

===Proper noun===
{{swp|Turk (surname)}}
{{en-prop}}

# {{surname|en}}.

===See also===
* {{l|en|Brig o' Turk}}

===References===
<references />

===Further reading===
* {{pedia}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=krtu|Kurt|Truk}}

{{C|en|Ethnonyms|Nationalities|Turkey}}

==Afrikaans==

===Noun===
{{af-noun|e|Turkie}}

# {{l|en|Turk}} {{gloss|person from Turkey or of Turkish descent}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|af|Turks}}
* {{l|af|Turkye}}

{{C|af|Turkey|Nationalities}}

==Dutch==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|nl|Nl-Turk.ogg}}
* {{rhymes|nl|ʏrk|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{nl-noun|m|-en|+|f=Turkse}}

# a [[Turkish]] person, a {{l|en|Turk}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|nl|Turkije}}

===Anagrams===
* {{l|nl|rukt}}

{{C|nl|Nationalities|Turkey}}