单词 | the turks |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Turks a. A native or inhabitant of Turkey; (formerly) a member of the dominant race of the Ottoman empire; sometimes extended to any subject of the Grand Turk or Turkish Sultan, but usually restricted to Muslim people; (in earlier times) a Seljúk; (from 1300) an Osmanli or Ottoman; a person who was, or considered himself, a descendant of the Osmanlis or other Turks. In plural the Turks, the Turkish people; (also) the Ottomans (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Turk > [noun] Turka1400 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Turkey > [noun] turkeina1330 Turka1400 Turkman1481 Ottoman1546 Turkisher1607 Ottomanic1614 Ottomitea1616 Othman1787 Johnny Turk1836 Johnny1854 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Arab Saracenc893 HagareneOE Araba1382 Turka1400 Ismaelite1571 Ishmaelite1577 A-rab1865 Johnny1884 a1400 Coer de L. 5003 Thre thousand Turkes com, with bost, Betwen Jakes and his hoost. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) iv. 26 [Rodes] was wont to be clept Collos; and so callen it the Turkes ȝit. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xiii. 145 But a gret man þat he [the Greek Emperour] sente for to kepe the contree aȝenst the Turkes vsurped the lond & helde it to him self, & cleped him Emperour of Trapazond. c1480 (a1400) St. Nicholas 591 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 498 Lang tyme eftyre with gret were, þe turkis thru iniquite distroyt þe towne of myrre [= Myra]. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 348 We shall werre styll on goddys enmyes, as ben turques & sarrasins. 1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 23 We war receyvyd by the Turkys and Sarrasyns. 1547 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 11 Hedpeces to the same, turkes ffasshyon of blewe Red & yolowe sarcenet. 1599 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 79 My drugaman..was a Turke, but a Cornish man borne. 1634 Cal. State Papers, Domest. 31 May (1864) 44 Complaints out of the west country of divers outrages lately committed in those parts by Turks and pirates. a1658 J. Durham Expos. Rev. (1680) v. ii. 275 To redeem so many of them from the bondage of the Turks. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 165 One Turke..he much favourd, who waited on him in his Cabine. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 140 The Turcs at our being there [i.e. at Vienna] having taken Neuhausel. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Turk, a Subject of the Grand Signiors, who is also call'd the Great Turk. 1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 352 The debt which England and all Europe had contracted with the Turks for the inoculation of the Small-pox. 1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia 24 The Servians, the Bosnians..and the Albanians, once more stood united against the Osmanlis. But the Turks were stronger than all these nations combined. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 658/2 At the present day we are wont to restrict the name to the Osmanli Turks, though they themselves refuse to be called Turks, having..ceased to be such in becoming imbued with Arabo-Persian culture. On the other hand when we speak of Uigurs and Tatars, we mean tribes who style themselves Turks and really are such. < as lemmas |
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