turk

noun

1. A speaker of the various Turkic languages.
2. A person from Turkey or of Turkish ethnic descent.
3. (obsolete)A Muslim.

   “Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers—if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me—with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players?”

   “Compare but our manners unto a Turke [translating Mahometan], or a Pagan, and we must needs yeeld unto them[…].”

   “It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian.”

4. a Christian horse-archer in Crusader army (Turcopole).
5. (archaic)A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian.

   “Was neuer any Impe so wicked and barbarous, any Turke so vyle and brutishe.”

   “A sort of primitive barbarity distinguishes the whole; no variety of character appears; and to call a man Turk is to say, that he is jealous, haughty, covetous, ignorant, and lascivious; at the same time that a certain dignity of gait, and magnificence of manners, gives him the appearance of generosity and true greatness of soul.”

   “A bad temper does seem often favourable to health. The man who has been a Turk all his life lives long to plague all about him.”

   “As much as the wilfully or naturally blunted, the intelligently honest have to learn by touch: only, their understandings cannot meanwhile be so wholly obtuse as our society's matron, acting to please the tastes of the civilized man—a creature that is not clean-washed of the Turk in him—barbarously exacts.”

   “They regarded the very word Turk as synonymous with ignorance, impoliteness, and idiocy. To call a man 'Turk' was regarded as a great dishonour to him.”

6. A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina.
7. A person from Llanelli, Wales.
8. A Turkish horse.
9. The plum curculio.

adj

1. Synonym of Turkic.

   “Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country: Kazakh, a Turk language spoken natively by mainly the Kazakh population, has the status of the 'state' language, [...]”

2. Synonym of Turkish.

name

1. A surname.