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English

Etymology

Clipping of turkey-cock and turkey-hen (“(originally) the guinea fowl (family Numididae)”), which was imported to Europe by Turkey merchants through Turkey. The word was then applied to the larger northern American bird Meleagris gallopavo which was brought to Spain by conquistadors in 1523. This transfer of the name may have occurred because the two birds were considered similar to each other, or because the North American turkey was in part introduced through Ottoman territories, or simply to indicate that it was foreign.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??ki/
• (General American) enPR: tûr'k?, IPA^(key): /?t?ki/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ki
• Hyphenation: tur?key

Noun

turkey (countable and uncountable, plural turkeys)

1. (countable, originally, now obsolete) The guinea fowl (family Numididae). [from c. 1600]
2. (countable) A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).
3. (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

4. (countable) With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
5. (countable, bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
6. (countable, medicine, slang, derogatory) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
7. (countable, Australia, US, slang, dated) A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase. [from early 20th c.]
8. (countable, US, slang) A failure.

   Synonym: flop
9. (countable, US, slang, usually mildly derogatory) A foolish or inept person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot

Hyponyms

• (male): turkey-cock
• (female): turkey-hen
• Californian turkey
• ocellated turkey
• wild turkey

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• gobble (“to make the sound of a turkey”)

References

Further reading

• domestic turkey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• turkey (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• turkey as food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• turkey (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meleagris gallopavo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meleagris ocellata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “turkey” in the Collins English Dictionary

English

Alternative forms

• kaimak
• kajmak

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kaymak (“cream”).

Noun

kaymak (uncountable)

1. A creamy dairy product, similar to clotted cream, made in the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, and India. It is made from the milk of water buffalos in the East or of cows in the West.

Translations

Further reading

• kaymak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Old Turkic kañak? (kañak), kayak? (kayak, “cream layer that forms on top of milk after boiling”), from kaña-? (kaña-, “1. to boil, 2. to melt, become liquid”), from kañ? (kañ, “fountainhead, spring, source of a stream”), from Proto-Turkic. See kaynamak.

Noun

kaymak (definite accusative kayma??, plural kaymaklar)

1. kaymak
2. (figuratively) best part of something

Declension

Derived terms

• kaymakl?
• kaymaks?z
• kaymaklanmak

Related terms

• kaynak

Etymology 2

From Old Turkic kay-? (kay-, “to turn (towards a direction or a thing), look after, have interest in, pay attention to”), from Proto-Turkic *k?y-, *K?j-. Ni?anyan thinks the meaning shift towards "to slip, slide" since the 15th century is due to the idiom aya?? kaymak (“to loose one's footing”) which is the result of turning and spraining of foot.

Verb

kaymak (third-person singular simple present kayar)

1. (intransitive) to slide; to slip, skid

2. (intransitive) to shift

3. (intransitive, slang) to fuck, insult, swear

Conjugation

Antonyms

• kaymamak

Derived terms

• kayak
• kaykay
• kaygan
• kay?lmak
• kayd?rmak
• sinekkayd?

Related terms

• kayg?
• kay?k

References