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What is bird called in Turkey?
In Turkey, the icon American bird is called hindi, which literally means a [bird] from India. Almost the same meaning also refers to several other languages, including Ukrainian, Polish and Russian, while the French call it dinde, a short form of coq d’inde — a name that references India.
What is the Turkish name for Turkey?
Turkey adopted its official name, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, known in English as the Republic of Turkey, upon the declaration of the republic on October 29 1923.
How do you say bird in Turkish in different languages?
In other languages turkey
- American English: turkey /ˈtɜrki/
- Arabic: دِيكٌ رُومِيّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: peru.
- Chinese: 火鸡
- Croatian: purica.
- Czech: krocan.
- Danish: kalkun.
- Dutch: kalkoen.
Why does Turkey have the same name as a bird?
First, in the 1500s when the American bird first arrived in Great Britain, it was shipped in by merchants in the East, mostly from Constantinople (who’d brought the bird over from America). Thus, an American bird got the name Turkey-coq, which was then shortened to “Turkey.”
What are the 4 types of turkeys?
Where the Wild Turkeys Are
- Eastern wild turkey. (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris)
- Osceola wild turkey. (Meleagris gallopavo osceola)
- Rio Grande wild turkey. (Meleagris gallopavo intermedia)
- Merriam’s wild turkey. (Meleagris gallopavo merriami)
- Gould’s wild turkey. (Meleagris gallopavo mexicana)
What is the Aztec word for turkey?
huehxolotl
The Nahuatl (Aztec) word for turkey is huehxolotl.
What do they call turkeys in other countries?
Other European names for turkeys incorporate an assumed Indian origin, such as dinde (‘from India’) in French, индюшка (indyushka, ‘bird of India’) in Russian, indyk in Polish and Ukrainian, and hindi (‘India’) in Turkish.
Where does the turkey bird originated from?
Americas
Domestic turkeys come from the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), a species that is native only to the Americas. In the 1500s, Spanish traders brought some that had been domesticated by indigenous Americans to Europe and Asia.