TURKIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Turkic mean? 

• TURKIC (noun)
  The noun TURKIC has 1 sense:

1. a subfamily of Altaic languages

  Familiarity information: TURKIC used as a noun is very rare.

• TURKIC (adjective)
  The adjective TURKIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic language

  Familiarity information: TURKIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURKIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A subfamily of Altaic languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar

Hypernyms ("Turkic" is a kind of...):

Altaic; Altaic language (a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Turkic"):

Turkish (a Turkic language spoken by the Turks)

Turcoman; Turkmen; Turkoman (the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman)

Azerbaijani (the Turkic language spoken by the Azerbaijani)

Kazak; Kazakh (the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak)

Tatar (the Turkic language spoken by the Tatar living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains)

Usbeg; Usbek; Uzbak; Uzbeg; Uzbek (the Turkic language spoken by the Uzbek)

Uighur; Uigur; Uygur (the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China)

Yakut (the Turkic language spoken by the Yakut)

Khirghiz; Kirghiz; Kirgiz (the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz)

Karakalpak (the Turkic language spoken by the Karakalpak)

Chuvash (the Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash)

Chagatai; Eastern Turki; Jagatai; Jaghatai (a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan))

• TURKIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Turki (a subfamily of Altaic languages)