Turkism

English

Etymology

From Turk +‎ -ism. Compare earlier Turcism.

Noun

Turkism (countable and uncountable, plural Turkisms)

Turkish culture, religion and tradition.
- 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador 2014, p. 279:
  Joseph's enthusiasm for promoting new German opera resulted in Mozart's The Escape from the Seraglio, the opera's jokey Turkism itself an indicator of the Ottomans' declining threat status.
(linguistics) A Turkish word, or a Turkish-derived word, used in a language not related to Turkish.

Coordinate terms

(foreignisms) foreignism; anglicism, Arabism, Gallicism, Germanism / Teutonism, Grecism / Hellenism, Hebraism, Hispanism, Hungarianism / Magyarism, Irishism, Italianism / Italicism, Japanism, Latinism, Polonism, Russianism, Sinicism, Slavism, Turkism, Yiddishism

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