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US
/ˈtɝkˌmɛn/
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ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or characteristic of Turkmenistan or its people or culture
NOUN
- a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas
- a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991
- the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman
How To Use Turkmen In A Sentence
- China has invested an estimated $6 billion, though some suspect that, due to corruption, the actual sum of money flowing to Turkmen and Uzbek businessmen may be considerably higher.
- His tribe has both Turkmen and Arab branches (which demonstrates once again that a ‘tribe’ is often based on fictive kinship and is a little like a political party, which can be joined or left over time).
- In Turkmenistan, the predominant colour is green and the look is topped off with a natty beret and biker boots. Times, Sunday Times
- Today, only a few hundred individuals of the Persian wild ass subpsecies (E.h. onager) persist in Bahram-e-Goor in the Iranian portion of the hotspot, while another subspecies of wild ass, known as the kulan or Turkmenian wild ass (E.h. kulan, CR), survives only in a single population in and around the Badkhyz Nature Reserve in south Turkmenistan, just marginally outside the hotspot. Biological diversity in the Irano-Anatolian
- Ms. NERMEEN AL-MUFTI (Spokeswoman, Iraqi Turkmen Front): The first thing is Turkmen and Arabs, not only in Kirkuk - in Kirkuk, Diyala, Salahudeen, Mosul and Anbar - they are going to boycott it. In Iraq, Counting Heads Is A Political Headache
- To prove or disprove the tallest tales, you need to get into Turkmenistan and see for yourself. Times, Sunday Times
- Tens of thousands of Turkmen tribesmen swarmed across Asia Minor, and within a decade the empire had lost most of its grain and more than half its manpower.
- But they possessed what the watching Turkmen wished for, a generation later: success and wealth. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- A member a nomadic Turkic people inhabiting Turkmenistan and neighboring areas in Iran and Afghanistan.
- It is undemocratic to steal a free ride on a Turkmen train, my friend. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
