Turkmenistan
/təːkˌmɛnɪˈstɑːn
/ /təːkˌmɛnɪˈstan/
A republic in central Asia, lying between the Caspian Sea and Afghanistan; population 4,884,900 (est. 2009); languages, Turkoman (official), Russian; capital, Ashgabat. Also called Turkmeniatəːkˈmiːnɪə.
Turkmenistan is dominated by the Karakum Desert, which occupies about 90 per cent of the country. Previously part of Turkestan, from 1924 it formed a separate constituent republic of the Soviet Union; Turkmenistan became an independent republic within the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1991
Rhymes
- take to something like a duck to water
- take to the bush
- take to the road (or take the road)
- take turns (or take it in turns)
- take-up
- take up arms
- take up (or pick up) the baton
- cutch
- cut corners
- cut-down
- cute
- cutely
- cuteness
- cutesiness
- cutesy
- cut from the same cloth
- cut glass
- Cuthbert, St
- cuticle
- cuticular
- cutie
- cut in
- cutin
- cut in line
- cut into