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.
köken: From Middle Dutch buse, of uncertain origin, plausibly representing an umlauted byform *beusju of Proto-West Germanic *beusu (“rush, bentgrass”) which gives Dutch bies. For the "television" sense, compare English tube.
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
köken: Borrowed from Russian хо́бот (xóbot), from Old East Slavic хоботъ (xobotŭ), from Proto-Slavic *xobotъ. Compare native Old Czech chobot (“tail; bay”).