turkish : Idioms & Phrases


turkish bath

  • noun a steam room where facilities are available for a bath followed by a shower and massage
  • noun you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower
    vapor bath; vapour bath; steam bath.
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turkish boxwood

  • noun very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks
    boxwood.
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turkish capital

  • noun the capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats
    Ankara; Angora; capital of Turkey.
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turkish coffee

  • noun a drink made from pulverized coffee beans; usually sweetened
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turkish delight

  • noun a jellied candy typically flavored with rose water
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turkish empire

  • noun a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire
    Ottoman Empire.
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turkish hizballah

  • noun an 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
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turkish lira

  • noun the basic unit of money in Turkey
    lira.
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turkish monetary unit

  • noun monetary unit in Turkey
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turkish tobacco

  • noun a dark aromatic tobacco of eastern Europe that is used in cigarettes
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turkish towel

  • noun a bath towel with rough loose pile
    terry towel.
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