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pabo [pá.bu.] : turkey (n.)

Derivatives of pabo


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turkey
n. (animal)1. meleagris gallopavo, turkeylarge gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food.
~ domestic fowl, fowl, poultrya domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl.
~ genus meleagris, meleagristype genus of the Meleagrididae: wild and domestic turkeys.
~ tom turkey, turkey cock, gobbler, tommale turkey.
n. (location)2. republic of turkey, turkeya Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923.
~ dardanelles campaign, dardanellesthe unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks.
~ aga, aghatitle for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
~ bulghur, bulgur, bulgur wheatparched crushed wheat.
~ ibda-c, islamic great eastern raiders-fronta Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul; a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO.
~ jerusalem warriorsethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the Turkish Hizballah; killed a United States Air Force sergeant in 1991.
~ kurdistan labor pary, kurdistan workers party, partiya karkeran kurdistan, ppka Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey.
~ revolutionary people's liberation front, revolutionary people's liberation partyan extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States; attacks Turkish security and military officials.
~ turkish hizballahan ethnic Kurdish group of Sunni extremists formed in the late 1980s in southeastern Turkey; seeks to replace Turkey's secular regime with an Islamic state and strict shariah law; responsible for bombings and the torture and murder of Turkish and Kurdish journalists and businessmen; receives support from Iran.
~ nato, north atlantic treaty organizationan international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
~ country, land, statethe territory occupied by a nation.; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
~ anatolia, asia minora peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey.
~ balkan peninsula, balkansa large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range.
~ middle east, mideast, near eastthe area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century.; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"
~ adrianople, adrianopolis, edirnea city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.
~ kurdistanan extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus.
~ abydosan ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander.
~ adana, seyhana city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
~ angora, ankara, capital of turkey, turkish capitalthe capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats.
~ adalia, antalyaa port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
~ antakiya, antakya, antiocha town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity.
~ canakkale bogazi, dardanelles, hellespontthe strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey.
~ halicarnassusan ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
~ constantinople, istanbul, stamboul, stambulthe largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
~ brusa, bursaa city in northwestern Turkey.
~ izmir, smyrnaa port city in western Turkey.
~ pergamuman ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed here.
~ sardisan ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; as the capital of Lydia it was the cultural center of Asia Minor; destroyed by Tamerlane in 1402.
~ aegospotami, aegospotamosa creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War.
~ ararat, mount ararat, mt. araratthe mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
~ aras, araxesa river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea; ancient name was Araxes.
~ bosporusa strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route.
~ euphrates, euphrates rivera river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia.
~ seyhan, seyhan rivera Turkish river flowing south southwest into the Mediterranean.
~ tigris, tigris riveran Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River.
~ turka native or inhabitant of Turkey.
n. (person)3. joker, turkeya person who does something thoughtless or annoying.; "some joker is blocking the driveway"
~ disagreeable person, unpleasant persona person who is not pleasant or agreeable.
n. (food)4. turkeyflesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted.
~ poultryflesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food.
~ white meat, breastmeat carved from the breast of a fowl.
~ turkey wingthe wing of a turkey.
n. (event)5. bomb, dud, turkeyan event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual.; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
~ bust, fizzle, flopa complete failure.; "the play was a dismal flop"