What’s this bird called in Turkey?
Posted by The_Majestic_Mantis@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 136 comments
Posted by The_Majestic_Mantis@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 136 comments
eddiereddie222@reddit
Finland?
HellstromGR@reddit
Greeks call it French
tomgpsu@reddit
Hindi
nikolapc@reddit
Turbo Chiken.
Substantial-Cat2896@reddit
Ha? An indian?
Sweet_Bridge_3001@reddit
Yes, the original bird is guinea fowl, which is from India, so Turks call it ''hindi''(India). Turkish traders would sell guinea fowl to Europe, so Europeans started calling it the turkey bird. When the Spanish settlers found and brought back the actual turkey from North America, they also called it turkey, so Turks called the turkey the bird also hindi.
Its a whole sort of fucked up.
nikolapc@reddit
Also funny that Columbus called the natives Indians, and they still use it. And they look like Turkeys sometimes cause they use feathers to do that. So the bird looks like an Indian(US).
Heinrich9864@reddit
In Romanian it's "Curcă". Which is extremely similar with what you have 😁
Sad-n-Salty@reddit
Isn’t мисирка(misirka) more used tho? I’ve only ever heard чурка(churka) as an insult lol
nikolapc@reddit
Not in Kumanovo but you're right. Totally forgot. Wonder where misir is from.
Sad-n-Salty@reddit
Funny enough misir means Egypt lol
Sea_Practice_1557@reddit
Misirka is different bird on serbian, something like small mix betwen turkey and chicken, grey bird, looking really sharp and angry.
nikolapc@reddit
Guinea fowl?
Sea_Practice_1557@reddit
Yes, but when i look online, similar, guess local variant. Ćurka is turkey, misikra is morka etc guinea fowl
DraculaTickles@reddit
Very close to Romania curca.
Brief_Interaction_97@reddit
We call it Peru in Portugal.
Familiar-Balance4555@reddit
Ooorgle!
loqu84@reddit
That about the Spanish settlers seems unlikely to me, the bird is called pavo in Spanish, nothing to do with the country of Turkey. In fact it is funny because pavo meant peacock at the time so they started calling the peacock "pavo real" (true peacock) which is what we still call it
NastyFarang@reddit
The bird origina
Sweet_Bridge_3001@reddit
No, the name ''Turkey'' originates from guinea fowl, wild turkey from Americas was discovered hundreds of years later and was confused with guinea fowl, thats why it was also called turkey.
NastyFarang@reddit
No, turkey the bird is a native of Mexico, and India in it's name is West Indies, i.e. America.
The guinea fowls known to the Romans and Greeks lived in North Africa and were called by them numida.
eloel-@reddit
It's called hindi after west indies, where the bird's roughly from.
Due-Zucchini-8520@reddit
Some European languages also do that, it's "indyk" in Polish.
echo_c1@reddit
Also “Pillik”
GrayFox5@reddit
Same in Israel It’s called “hodu” which means India.
FishCameThrough@reddit
Chicken turbo agresor
FishCameThrough@reddit
There is a joke in Slovakia: - how do say "bee" in hungarian? - Szeremed (sere=takes shit, med=honey) ... - and hornet? - nemszeremed turbo agresor!
nikolapc@reddit
I love that the basic stuff never really changes in Slavic languages.
Brilliant_Winner_393@reddit
hindi
SentenceTop1585@reddit
In Croatia, the males are called puran, females purica
No_Yogurtcloset_3969@reddit
Hindi.
TH4LES@reddit
Hindi
skystar316@reddit
It is called hindi commonly. But in Kastamonu city where turkeys are widely grown and eaten, they are called ibi ( local usage). Eflani district is the best location where you can buy good turkeys for Christmas time.
Massive_Past_1895@reddit
Hindi
Any-Income8768@reddit
Hindi ...
Short-shows-3815@reddit
Culuk
SuspectNo8878@reddit
hindi
ftch00@reddit
Culuk, gulu gulu 😁
Enough-Broccoli-45@reddit
Hindi but regional name in west blacksea is ibi
AlfaDog28@reddit
It's called Hindi, their name for India. This is where the bird is from originally. When the. Rits came to Turkey and saw the bird for the first time they started to call it Turkey.
Faxtrampant@reddit
Hindi and we called india Hindistan
Nardugan1881@reddit
Hindi 🇳🇪
reyo7k2@reddit
I love how the country Turkey decided to be renamed to Toorkiye (English doesn't have whatever letter is placed second, so let's visualise it like this) when the situation is so absurd
Nardugan1881@reddit
Crazy how other languages exist outside English, right? (flair up please)
reyo7k2@reddit
Oh I thought it was the global Ask Reddit, so turns out I commented accidentally lol🥲
Anyway, yeah but the renaming was for English language. I bet that in Turkish (or is it Türkiyesh now?...) the name stays the same.
Planpy7@reddit
Just say Turkiye since English doesnt have ü
Nardugan1881@reddit
It's global ofc, and we love to answer questions but most of the redditors are flaired up and i would love to know to specify to which nationality i am talking to 😊
Funny enough, even the Mamluks (Norhten-Africa) and Western sources often called the Ottomans ‘Türkiye’. Looks like history is catching up with us.
Internal-Debt1870@reddit
We're not in the mix there, but we call it French/Gaul bird essentially.
nikolapc@reddit
Because France famously has a Turkey as it's national symbol. Silly Greeks.
Nardugan1881@reddit
things got interesting, it seems guinea fowl was the 1st turkey-bird (from West-Africa) .. real turkey is from North-Africa i think
zulufdokulmusyuze@reddit
My grandmother used to call them mısır (Egypt). This map does not capture that.
(and she used to call corn mekke (Mecca). But corn is actually called mısır in Turkish.)
grympy@reddit
We have places in Bulgaria that still use “misirka” for “пуйка” (puika)
SilentTraveller7926@reddit
Interesting, in Hungarian, turkey is called pulyka, same pronunciation. But I read they are not related words.
That_North_994@reddit
In Romanian we say "puică" to a young hen.
awjeezypeepsman@reddit
Well, where I am from, we call corn "darı". "Mısır" is a country name, i.e., Egypt.
inki471@reddit
Which province is she from? I’ve never heard anyone calling it that way so I’m a bit curious about which local dialect it’s from.
zulufdokulmusyuze@reddit
Afyon
Worth_Farm_7158@reddit
The grey countries haven’t heard about Turkey?
Tkemalediction@reddit
The have an country-neutral name. We call it tacchino.
Internal-Debt1870@reddit
We call it french bird though, so we should have been included 😂
bel_ray@reddit
No France for Greece? smh
Beneficial_Nerve5776@reddit
that is niger flag
Piputi@reddit
That’s the flag of Niger
MetroDodoPasDeBoulot@reddit
In Canada we call it Dinde ( from India)
Chuchichaeschtli226@reddit
Dinde is french. Do you use this word overall in Canada? :)
MetroDodoPasDeBoulot@reddit
Well i live in Québec and we use the word dinde,and we speak french here
Dazzling-Ear2151@reddit
I feel sorry for this bird. Why would no one bother to name them on its own is a mystery to me. Here is a short videoshort video that will explain better
yanaksk@reddit
Aligülücakcak
Borekhan_01@reddit
Hindi
turkoman_@reddit
Indian.
KeyaruHan@reddit
Culuk
Lizard_Of_Roz@reddit
Greece
ungovernable1984@reddit
You mean grease
The_Majestic_Mantis@reddit (OP)
Affectionate-Arm-405@reddit
You mean Yunanistan?
Glittering-Most-4124@reddit
Well, in some Turkish folk dialects, the words Grika or Grıka can be used to refer to Greek people (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxNlwaq8UTE&t=186s), so why not Grikais?
Lizard_Of_Roz@reddit
No, that’s the country.
syncopex@reddit
No, I mean Hellas.
humanistazazagrliti@reddit
İyonya tavuğu
Old_Resident8050@reddit
hehehe :D
theUNLORD666@reddit
Home sweet home🤣
HuusSaOrh@reddit
Hindistan
Many-Rooster-7905@reddit
Wtf, so you named it india, in india they named it vietnam, in vietnam they named it philippines, someone has to step up and take the responsibility
HuusSaOrh@reddit
Yeah. Like a Kravat
Spare-Rest5454@reddit
🤪🤣
GrowthNo5783@reddit
Hindi deniyor sanırsam
Sugar_Vivid@reddit
Curcan
superbus-Turk@reddit
Hindi, and we call India “Hindistan” which literally means “land of the turkeys
euclideum@reddit
Nice, but wrong. Hindustan. Which means the land of Hindus, which comes from the Indus river - or the people by the Indus river.
Elegant-While2407@reddit
In Slovenija we call it puran-male or purica-female
kuga-3474@reddit
Çorum amk Çorum
subooot@reddit
In Serbia, we call it Ćurka.
Sufficient_Noise7603@reddit
In Romania we call it Curcan.
RaulRene@reddit
In some regions it's also curcă, same as serbian
senTienTAVB@reddit
Isn’t curca the female turkey?
Panzerscout_SRB@reddit
Ćurka is female, ćuran is male in serbian.
DrawingFrequent554@reddit
Ćurkan is male ćurka
Th3Dark0ccult@reddit
Lmao, that word is a slang for penis in bulgarian.
subooot@reddit
That would be ćuran (male turkey), ćurka is female.
Th3Dark0ccult@reddit
We use specifically чурка for penis. The other word doesn't exsist in my country.
subooot@reddit
We use it too for that same purpose, just we use male name for it.
EverlastingFrontier@reddit
Huh, my Greek grandma calls it that way too. Her parents are from Western Thrace.
tehevul@reddit
Indeed in some regions of northern Greece they call it Kurkos, but you don't hear that often and it's probably Slavic origin
ragingtemper@reddit
What does it mean?
subooot@reddit
It is our version of old turkish word gurk/kurk that come from sound of that bird make.
Cool_Penglin@reddit
İndia
Specific-Ad4666@reddit
They call it "rest of the world"
Critical-Copy1455@reddit
Pura i puran. In Dalmatia is tuka, l belive.
Many-Rooster-7905@reddit
Pura as opposite to kura, chicken in slavic countries north of hungary
ElectricalOnion5765@reddit
In Albania we call it 'sea cock' :D, because it arrived through coastal trade routes.
NothingSubstantial17@reddit
Türkiye
mahai0@reddit
Hmm a turkey in Turkey: a turturkekey!
IcyRefrigerator7626@reddit
Hindi, i think its like short form of Hindi(stan). Hindistan means India.
777fk@reddit
Culuh , çulluk
Bendov_er@reddit
Greekey
japetusgr@reddit
It is called Hindi (Indian)
RedditAnonDude@reddit
Turkiye
Mark__78L@reddit
*Turkey
CheesecakeTurtle@reddit
In Greece it's called Γαλλοπούλα which means a "french bird" or "french girl"
merdeauxfraises@reddit
Inaccurate. It’s the feminine of γαλος which is short for the Venetian gallopavo, meaning the peacock of Gaul. In some areas it’s also called διάνος from Indian, due to it being native in North America.
klusasan@reddit
USA?
Wraith305@reddit
American
ermanp@reddit
Our country
shko-der@reddit
Gjel deti aka hiken thingy that came thru the sea
TheyCallHimBabaYagaa@reddit
We have pule too, it just means something a lil bit different
RammRras@reddit
😂
theyyg@reddit
And we call tuna the chicken of the sea.
Nardugan1881@reddit
shark = dogfish (cause bites?)
Design_pattern@reddit
Ćuran (Serbia)
tickley-ninja@reddit
Ćurka ima isti koren kao i turkey. Glas Ć je sastavljen iz dvoglasa TJ. TJURKA > TURKA. Negde usput se kod nas ubacilo J (ili je u engleskom ispalo), pa sad izgleda kao dosta drugačija reč, a zapravo je mnogo sličnija engleskom na drugi pogled.
dudthyawesome@reddit
Curcan in romania 🤝
Fat_Rocky0028@reddit
Yunan
basedfinger@reddit
Erdoğan's Fleshlight (headcannon)
Bata600@reddit
Ottoman
sasvim_nebitan@reddit
Türkiye
Iapetus404@reddit
Türkiye