Meaning of ترک | Babel Free

Definitions

1. exit, leaving
2. Turk, someone of Turkic ethnicity (not necessarily from Turkey, e.g. Iranian Azeris)
3. crack, crevice
4. quitting, abandoning, renouncing
5. the beloved, often in imagery comparing the beloved to a beautiful but cruel Turkish warrior who sacks and plunders the lover's heart.
   poetic
6. planet; (especially) Mars (as the warrior planet, hence Turkish)
   archaic, figuratively, poetic

Equivalents

Examples

“ترک افسانه بگو حافظ و می نوش دمی که نخفتیم شب و شمع به افسانه بسوخت”

Say [that you will] stop [telling] the legend, Ḥāfiẓ, and drink wine for once! We have not slept all night, and the candle burnt away with the legend.

“مردمان ترک”

Turkic peoples

“مسعود پزشکیان، وزیر سابق بهداشت و نماینده باسابقه تبریز، در طول مبارزات انتخاباتی ریاست جمهوری خود همواره بر تُرک بودن خود تاکید کرده است، همانطور که در طول دوران سیاسی خود بر این موضوع تاکید داشته است.”

Masoud Pezeshkian, the former Minister of Health and Tabriz's veteran representative [in Parliament], has always emphasized that he is an [Azeri] Turk throughout his presidential campaign, just as he has emphasized this fact throughout his political career.

“اگر آن ترک شیرازی به دست آرد دل ما را به خال هندویش بخشم سمرقند و بخارا را”

If that Shirazi Turk should take my heart within her hand, For her Indian [i.e. black] mole, I shall give Samarqand and Bukhārā.

“ترک چرخ”

Mars (literally, “the Turk of heaven”)

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