turkic

1. 1.

   of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic language

Other forms of turkic

plural

turkics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about turkic

What does turkic mean?

turkic means "a subfamily of Altaic languages". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in turkic?

turkic has 2 syllables: tur-kic. The stress falls on "tur". In IPA it is /ˈtɝkɪk/.

What is another word for turkic?

Close synonyms include Turki, Turko-Tatar, Turkic language. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turkic a common word?

turkic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.