turkey-hen (a female turkey) · turkey meat (of a male or a female turkey)
çekim: çoğul dindes
köken: In the early period following the discovery of the Americas (i.e., the Indies), the French called turkeys coq d'Inde, poule d'Inde (literally “hen from India”), etc. D'Inde was ultimately spelled dinde by (rebracketing).
köken: Borrowed from Arabic أَبُوقَلَمُون (ʔabūqalamūn), from Ancient Greek ὑποκάλαμον (hupokálamon), originally a Byzantine term used to refer to a precious multi-coloured textile, later used to refer to the bird due to its ability to change the colours of its feathers .
köken: From *körkä (“turkey”), perhaps related to Proto-Turkic *körtük (“woodcock; turkey; blackcock”). Cognate with Bashkir күркә (kürkə, “turkey”), Tatar күркә (kürkä, “turkey”), Uzbek kurka (“turkey”), Uyghur كۈركە (kürke, “turkey”), etc.
a turkey; any bird of genus Meleagris, particularly Meleagris gallopavo
çekim: çoğul kalkoenen
köken: From older Dutch Calcoensche haan (modern kalkoense haan), from Calcoen, the then-used name for the Indian city Calicut, modern Kozhikode. Although the bird originated in the Americas, confusion arose due to its similarity to the African guinea fowl, which was exported to and imported from India since the 15th century by Portuguese traders.
turkey (bird) · a turkey (total failure, especially a bad movie)
çekim: çoğul kalkoner · tamlayan kalkons
köken: Borrowed from Low German kalkûn or Dutch kalkoen, nominalisation of kalkûnsche höner or kalkoensche haan "hen from Calicut" (modern Kozhikode, India). Doublet of kalikå.
köken: Borrowed from Portuguese peru. Alternatively, from Classical Persian پِیل مُرْغ (pīl murġ, literally “elephant chicken”) (compare Dari فِیلمُرْغ (fīl-murġ)).
köken: < Dutch kalkoen (“turkey”), probably via Scandinavian languages, compare e.g. Danish kalkun (“turkey”), Swedish kalkon (“turkey”); see the Dutch entry for further etymology