Turkmen

1. A native or inhabitant of Turkmenistan.
2. also Tur·ko·man or Tur·co·man (tûr'kə-mən) pl., Turkoman, or Turcoman, or -ko·mans, or -co·mans. A member of a traditionally nomadic Turkic people inhabiting Turkmenistan and neighboring areas in Iran and Afghanistan.
3. also Turkoman or Turcoman The Turkic language of the Turkmen.

[Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Persian Turkmān, from turkmān, like a Turk, from Turk, Turk. See Turki.]

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Turkic peoples in Turkmenistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. The Turkmen are speakers of Western Oghuz Turkic, and were originally pastoral nomads. They lived east of the Caspian Sea and west of the Amu Darya (Oxus) River. In addition, Turkmen minorities today reside in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.

The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas
  Synonyms: Turkoman, Turcoman

Meaning #2: a republic in Asia east of the Caspian Sea and south of Kazakhstan and north of Iran; an Asian Soviet from 1925 to 1991
  Synonyms: Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Turkmenia

Meaning #3: the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman people
  Synonyms: Turkoman, Turcoman

Turkmen or Turkoman or Turkman may refer to:

• Of or relating to Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, specifically:
  • Turkmen SSR, that country as a constituent republic of the former Soviet Union
  • Turkmen language, the national language of Turkmenistan
• Turkmen people, an ethnic group speaking the Turkmen language located in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Iran
• Iraqi Turkmen, an ethnic minority living in northern Iraq
• Syrian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria
• Oghuz Turks, a large branch of Turkic peoples
  • Specially, Muslim Nomadic Oghuz Turks (the most common usage of the word "Turkmen", in 10th-18th centuries)
• In Turkey and the former Ottoman Empire, 'Turkmen' often refers to those now called Yörük
• Karapapaks or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus

Places

• Türkmən, Barda, Azerbaijan
• Türkmən, Goychay, Azerbaijan
• Türkmən, Qabala, Azerbaijan
• Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
• Turkoman (horse), the proper name of a thoroughbred race horse
• Turkmen, Tver Oblast, Tver Oblast, Russia (a small settlement near Moscow)

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