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Turkmen

turk·men

UK/ˈtɜːk.mən/ US/ˈtɝk.mən/ uncommon
adjective (1) noun (3)

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of or relatin to or characteristic of Turkmenistan or its people or culture

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a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas

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a republic in Asia east of the Caspian Sea and south of Kazakhstan and north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991

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The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.

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