Turkmen

Etymology 1
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.

Noun

 * 1)  A person from Turkmenistan or of Turkmen descent.
 * 2)  A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.
 * 1)  A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.
 * 1)  A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.

Translations

 * Arabic: تُرْكُمَانِيّ, تُرْكُمَانِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: türkmən
 * Bashkir: төрөкмән
 * Belarusian: туркме́н, туркме́нка
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 土庫曼人
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: turkmeno, turkmenino
 * Faroese: turkmeni
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თურქმენი
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: トルクメン人
 * Kazakh: түркмен
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: تورکمان
 * Latvian: turkmēnis, turkmēniete
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ,
 * Pashto: ترکمن
 * Persian:, ترکمان
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: Turkmén, Turkménec, Turkménka
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: туркман
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: türkmen
 * Cyrillic: түркмен
 * Ukrainian: туркме́н, туркме́нка
 * Uyghur: تۈركمەن
 * Uzbek:
 * Yiddish: טורקמענער


 * Arabic: اللُّغَة التُّرْكُمَانِيَّة, التُّرْكُمَانِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: türkmən dili
 * Basque:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: туркмен чӗлхи
 * Czech: turkmenština
 * Dhivehi: ތުރުކު
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: turkmena lingvo
 * Faroese: turkmenskt
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, turkmeno
 * German:, turkmenische Sprache
 * Irish: Tuircméinis
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: түрікмен тілі
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: تورکمانی
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: turkmēņu, turkmēņu valoda
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Kiturukimeni
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: türkmen dili,
 * Uyghur: تۈركمەن تىلى
 * Uzbek: turkman tili

Adjective

 * Of, from, or pertaining to Turkmenistan, the Turkmen people or the Turkmen language.

Translations

 * Arabic: تُرْكُمَانِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: türkmən
 * Bashkir: төрөкмән, төркмән
 * Belarusian: туркме́нскі
 * Bulgarian: туркме́нски
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: turkmena
 * Faroese: turkmenskur
 * French:
 * Galician:, turkmeno
 * Georgian: თურქმენული
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Tuircméanastánach
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: түрікмен
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: turkmēņu, turkmēnisks
 * Macedonian: туркменски
 * Mongolian: туркмен
 * Mongolian: ᠲᠦ᠋ᠷᠺᠮᠧᠨ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ту̀ркме̄нскӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: туркманӣ
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: türkmen
 * Cyrillic: түркмен
 * Ukrainian: туркме́нський
 * Uyghur: تۈركمەن
 * Uzbek:

Etymology 2
Treated as a plural of the deprecated term, influenced by English , plural.

Usage notes
Usage of, especially as a singular of Turkmen, has steadily declined and has become rare in comparison with (plural  or ) since the 19th century as can be seen here.

Noun

 * , Turkoman, Turkman person

Noun

 * 1)  language