English
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Turkestan
- (historical) The regions of Central Asia lying between Siberia to the north; Tibet (Xizang) and Xinjiang, China, modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran to the south; the Gobi Desert to the east; and the Caspian Sea to the west.
Translations
a historical region in Asia
- Arabic: تُرْكِسْتَان m (turkistān)
- Armenian: Թուրքեստան (Tʿurkʿestan)
- Azeri: Türküstan
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 突厥斯坦 (zh) (Tūjuésītǎn), 土耳其斯坦 (zh) (Tǔ'ěrqísītǎn)
- French: Turkestan (fr) m
- German: Turkestan (de) n
- Hebrew: טורקסטן m (turqistan)
- Hindi: तुर्केस्तान m (turkestān)
- Japanese: トルキスタン (Torukisutan)
- Kazakh: Түркістан (Türkistan)
- Korean: 투르키스탄 (Tureukiseutan)
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- Kyrgyz: Түркстан (Türkstan)
- Marathi: तुर्केस्तान m (turkestāna)
- Middle Persian: twlkstʾn' (Turkestān)
- Persian: ترکستان (torkestân)
- Portuguese: Turquestão (pt) m
- Russian: Туркеста́н (ru) m (Turkestán)
- Tajik: Туркистон (Turkiston)
- Turkish: Türkistan (tr)
- Turkmen: Türkestan
- Urdu: ترکستان m (turkestān)
- Uyghur: تۈركىستان (türkistan)
- Uzbek: Turkiston
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See also
Former Russian Turkestan (before 1917 revolution):
Former Chinese Turkestan:
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