turkey

Etymology
and, which was imported to Europe by Turkey merchants through Turkey. The word was then applied to the larger northern American bird 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.

Noun

 * 1)  The guinea fowl (family ).
 * 2)  A bird in the genus  with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (, now domesticated).
 * 3)  The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
 * 4)  With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the  (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey, and the water turkey ).
 * 5)  An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
 * 6)  A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
 * 7)  A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
 * 8)  A failure.
 * 9)  A foolish or inept person.
 * 10)  A prostitute.
 * 1)  A failure.
 * 2)  A foolish or inept person.
 * 3)  A prostitute.
 * 1)  A foolish or inept person.
 * 2)  A prostitute.
 * 1)  A foolish or inept person.
 * 2)  A prostitute.
 * 1)  A prostitute.
 * 1)  A prostitute.

Translations

 * Abenaki: nahama
 * Abkhaz: агуагушь
 * Adyghe: тхьэкӏэт
 * Afrikaans:
 * Akan: krakum
 * Albanian: gjeli i detit
 * Amharic: ጅግራ
 * Arabic: دِيك رُومِيّ, دِيك هِنْدِيّ, دِيك اَلْحَبَش
 * Egyptian Arabic: ديك رومي
 * Gulf Arabic: ديچ رومي
 * Hijazi Arabic: ديك رومي
 * Iraqi Arabic: هندي, ديچ هندي
 * Moroccan Arabic: بيبي, ديك رومي
 * North Levantine Arabic: حبشة
 * North Mesopotamian Arabic: عَلوْعَلوْ
 * South Levantine Arabic: حبش
 * Tunisian Arabic: دَانْدْ
 * Armenian:
 * Asháninka: pavo
 * Asi: pabo
 * Assamese: পেৰু চৰাই
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, hind quşu
 * Bashkir: күркә
 * Basque: ,
 * Bau Bidayuh: truki
 * Belarusian: дзі́кая інды́чка
 * Breton:, kilhog-Indez
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Caddo: nuʔ
 * Cahuilla: pulmiwet
 * Catalan:, , pioc, polla d'índia
 * Catawba: watka tro
 * Cebuano: pabo
 * Central Mahuatlán Zapoteco:
 * Central Mazahua: ⱥjnⱥ
 * Central Melanau: siyau belada
 * Central Nahuatl: huexolotl
 * Chamicuro: mikarawa
 * Chavacano: pabo
 * Chechen: москал
 * Cherokee: ᎬᏂ, ᎬᎾ
 * Cheyenne: ma'xėhē'ne
 * Chichewa: nkhukundembo
 * Chickasaw: chaloklowa'
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 火雞
 * Dungan: бэпинҗир, бэшанҗир, ёнҗи, ёнҗир, җинҗи
 * Hakka: 火雞
 * Hokkien: 火雞
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Choapan Zapotec:
 * Choctaw: fakit
 * Chuvash: кӑркка
 * Classical Nahuatl: huehxōlōtl
 * Copala Triqui: coloj
 * Cornish: yar Gyni
 * Cree: ᐅᓇᐊᐧᑯᐦᑌᐤ
 * Crimean Tatar: körel, köküş, müsür
 * Czech: ,
 * Dalmatian: dindiuota
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Eastern Arrernte: artewe
 * Esperanto: meleagro, virmeleagro, meleagriĉo , meleagrino
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: kalkun, kalkunur, kalkúnur
 * Finnish:
 * Fon: tlŏtlŏ
 * Fox: penêwa
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: dindi, dindiat
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ინდაური
 * German:, , , , , , Kurre , Kurrhahn ,
 * Pennsylvania German: Welschhinkel, Welschhaahne
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic: qingalissuaq
 * Guerrero Amuzgo: chölö
 * Haitian Creole: kodenn
 * Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: ʼyáˑs, yaas
 * Hawaiian: pelehū
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Higaonon: pabo
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:, dindulo ,
 * Igbo: toro toro
 * Ilocano: pábo
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: kalkkuna, indjukka
 * Irish: turcaí, turcach
 * Isthmus Zapotec:
 * Italian:, tacchina , gallinaccio, pollo d’India
 * Japanese:, カラクン, カラクン鳥,
 * Jumaytepeque: hurʼu
 * Karachay-Balkar: къырым тауукъ
 * Kazakh: түйетауық, xораз, күркетауық
 * Khmer: មាន់បារាំង, ដាំងដុង
 * Klamath-Modoc: sqol'oos
 * Korean: 칠면조(七面鳥)
 * Kumyk: гюргюр
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بووقەلەموون,
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: tachin
 * Ladino: indiana, biba
 * Lao:, ງວງ
 * Latin: gallopāvō
 * Latvian: tītars
 * Leonese: pavu
 * Ligurian: bibìn
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:, , Kuun, , Puut
 * Loxicha Zapotec:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: мисирка, мисир
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: ayam belanda, kalkun
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: dundjan
 * Manx: kellagh frangagh, kiark rangagh
 * Maori: korukoru, pīpipi
 * Mapudungun: pafu
 * Mari:
 * Western Mari: немӹццӹвӹ
 * Marshallese: take
 * Metlatónoc Mixtec:
 * Mi'kmaq: ap'tapegiejit
 * Miami: pileewa
 * Mohawk: skaweró:wane
 * Mohegan-Pequot: náham, dorkes
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: цацагт хяргуул
 * Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠴᠤᠭᠲᠤ ᠬᠢᠷᠠᠭᠤᠯ
 * Montagnais: mishineu
 * Munsee: pŭléew
 * Nanticoke: pah!quun
 * Natchez: sokorser
 * Navajo: tązhii
 * Neapolitan: pinto, galledinio, dinio, guicce
 * Norman: dindaon, picot
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kalkun, kalkunhane, kalkunhøne
 * Nynorsk: kalkun, kalkunhane, kalkunhøne
 * Occitan: ,
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: mizise
 * Osage: súkka
 * Ossetian: гогыз
 * Papiamentu: kalakuna
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, فیل‌مرغ
 * Polish:,  ,  ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Powhatan: monessew
 * Purepecha:
 * Quechua: qallqatu
 * Rapa Nui: koro koro
 * Romagnol: galinàz
 * Romani: tudkano, tudka
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: galdin
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sami:
 * Northern Sami: kálkon
 * San Jerónimo Tecóatl Mazatec: káló
 * Sardinian: dindu, piocu, caboni de Ìndias, pudda de Ìndia
 * Scots: bubbly-jock
 * Scottish Gaelic: eun-Frangach, coileach-Frangach, cearc-Fhrangach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ћу́рка, ћу̀ра̄н, пуран, ту̏ка
 * Roman:, ćùrān, ,
 * Shawnee: pelewa
 * Shipibo-Conibo: córocoro
 * Sicilian:, , , ,
 * Silacayoapan Mixtec:
 * Sinhalese: කළුකුමා
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:, pura
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: turk, puta, truta, turkawa
 * Upper Sorbian: truta, trutak
 * Sotho: kalakune, dikalakune
 * Spanish:, chompipe , chumpe , cócono , ,  ,  , pípila , güíjolo , gallina de la sierra
 * Sranan Tongo: krakun
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pabo
 * Tajik:, филмурғ
 * Tamil:
 * Tarantino: tacchine
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: టర్కీ కోడి,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tigrinya: ታኪን
 * Tiwi: kawukawuni
 * Tok Pisin: teki
 * Tsonga: galakulu
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: indýuk
 * Ukrainian: інди́к, інди́чка
 * Unami: chikënëm
 * Urdu: پِیرُو, فِیل مُرْغ
 * Urum: мисир
 * Ute: kwiyu-tʉ
 * Uyghur: كۈركە, كۈركە توخۇ
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: piton
 * Vietnamese: (鵸西)
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Wastek: palats
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: kalkoen
 * Wolof: koppin bi
 * Xhosa: ikarukwini
 * Yiddish: אינדיק
 * Yoruba: tolotolo
 * Yucatec Maya: úulum, tso'
 * Zazaki: qulquli
 * Zulu: ikalikhuni, ikalikuni


 * Afrikaans: kalkoenvleis
 * Chickasaw: chaloklowa'
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: meleagraĵo
 * Finnish: kalkkunanliha
 * French:, viande de dinde, , viande de dindon
 * German:, Putenfleisch, Trutenfleisch , , Truthahnfleisch
 * Ido:
 * Polish:
 * Sotho: nama ya kalakune
 * Turkish: hindi eti
 * Ukrainian: індича́тина, інди́чина; інди́к, інди́чка


 * Japanese: