What’s this bird called in Turkey?

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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.

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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).

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Heinrich9864@reddit

In Romanian it's "Curcă". Which is extremely similar with what you have 😁

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Sad-n-Salty@reddit

Isn’t мисирка(misirka) more used tho? I’ve only ever heard чурка(churka) as an insult lol

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nikolapc@reddit

Not in Kumanovo but you're right. Totally forgot. Wonder where misir is from.

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Sad-n-Salty@reddit

Funny enough misir means Egypt lol

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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.

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nikolapc@reddit

Guinea fowl?

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Sea_Practice_1557@reddit

Yes, but when i look online, similar, guess local variant. Ćurka is turkey, misikra is morka etc guinea fowl

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DraculaTickles@reddit

Very close to Romania curca.

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Brief_Interaction_97@reddit

We call it Peru in Portugal.

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Familiar-Balance4555@reddit

Ooorgle!

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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

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NastyFarang@reddit

The bird origina

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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.

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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.

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eloel-@reddit

It's called hindi after west indies, where the bird's roughly from.

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Due-Zucchini-8520@reddit

Some European languages also do that, it's "indyk" in Polish.

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echo_c1@reddit

Also “Pillik”

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GrayFox5@reddit

Same in Israel It’s called “hodu” which means India.

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FishCameThrough@reddit

Chicken turbo agresor

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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!

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nikolapc@reddit

I love that the basic stuff never really changes in Slavic languages.

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Brilliant_Winner_393@reddit

hindi

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SentenceTop1585@reddit

In Croatia, the males are called puran, females purica

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No_Yogurtcloset_3969@reddit

Hindi.

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TH4LES@reddit

Hindi

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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.

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Massive_Past_1895@reddit

Hindi

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Any-Income8768@reddit

Hindi ...

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Short-shows-3815@reddit

Culuk

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SuspectNo8878@reddit

hindi

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ftch00@reddit

Culuk, gulu gulu 😁

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Enough-Broccoli-45@reddit

Hindi but regional name in west blacksea is ibi

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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.

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Faxtrampant@reddit

Hindi and we called india Hindistan

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Nardugan1881@reddit

Hindi 🇳🇪

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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

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Nardugan1881@reddit

Crazy how other languages exist outside English, right? (flair up please)

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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.

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Planpy7@reddit

Just say Turkiye since English doesnt have ü

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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.

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Internal-Debt1870@reddit

We're not in the mix there, but we call it French/Gaul bird essentially.

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nikolapc@reddit

Because France famously has a Turkey as it's national symbol. Silly Greeks.

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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

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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.)

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grympy@reddit

We have places in Bulgaria that still use “misirka” for “пуйка” (puika)

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SilentTraveller7926@reddit

Interesting, in Hungarian, turkey is called pulyka, same pronunciation. But I read they are not related words.

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That_North_994@reddit

In Romanian we say "puică" to a young hen.

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awjeezypeepsman@reddit

Well, where I am from, we call corn "darı". "Mısır" is a country name, i.e., Egypt.

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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.

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zulufdokulmusyuze@reddit

Afyon

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Worth_Farm_7158@reddit

The grey countries haven’t heard about Turkey?

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Tkemalediction@reddit

The have an country-neutral name. We call it tacchino.

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Internal-Debt1870@reddit

We call it french bird though, so we should have been included 😂

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bel_ray@reddit

No France for Greece? smh

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Beneficial_Nerve5776@reddit

that is niger flag

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Piputi@reddit

That’s the flag of Niger

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MetroDodoPasDeBoulot@reddit

In Canada we call it Dinde ( from India)

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Chuchichaeschtli226@reddit

Dinde is french. Do you use this word overall in Canada? :)

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MetroDodoPasDeBoulot@reddit

Well i live in Québec and we use the word dinde,and we speak french here

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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

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yanaksk@reddit

Aligülücakcak

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Borekhan_01@reddit

Hindi

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turkoman_@reddit

Indian.

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KeyaruHan@reddit

Culuk

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Lizard_Of_Roz@reddit

Greece

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ungovernable1984@reddit

You mean grease

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The_Majestic_Mantis@reddit (OP)

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Affectionate-Arm-405@reddit

You mean Yunanistan?

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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?

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Lizard_Of_Roz@reddit

No, that’s the country.

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syncopex@reddit

No, I mean Hellas.

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humanistazazagrliti@reddit

İyonya tavuğu

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Old_Resident8050@reddit

hehehe :D

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theUNLORD666@reddit

Home sweet home🤣

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HuusSaOrh@reddit

Hindistan

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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

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HuusSaOrh@reddit

Yeah. Like a Kravat

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Spare-Rest5454@reddit

🤪🤣

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GrowthNo5783@reddit

Hindi deniyor sanırsam

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Sugar_Vivid@reddit

Curcan

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superbus-Turk@reddit

Hindi, and we call India “Hindistan” which literally means “land of the turkeys

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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.

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Elegant-While2407@reddit

In Slovenija we call it puran-male or purica-female

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kuga-3474@reddit

Çorum amk Çorum

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subooot@reddit

In Serbia, we call it Ćurka.

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Sufficient_Noise7603@reddit

In Romania we call it Curcan.

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RaulRene@reddit

In some regions it's also curcă, same as serbian

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senTienTAVB@reddit

Isn’t curca the female turkey?

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Panzerscout_SRB@reddit

Ćurka is female, ćuran is male in serbian.

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DrawingFrequent554@reddit

Ćurkan is male ćurka

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Th3Dark0ccult@reddit

Lmao, that word is a slang for penis in bulgarian.

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subooot@reddit

That would be ćuran (male turkey), ćurka is female.

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Th3Dark0ccult@reddit

We use specifically чурка for penis. The other word doesn't exsist in my country.

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subooot@reddit

We use it too for that same purpose, just we use male name for it.

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EverlastingFrontier@reddit

Huh, my Greek grandma calls it that way too. Her parents are from Western Thrace.

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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

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ragingtemper@reddit

What does it mean?

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subooot@reddit

It is our version of old turkish word gurk/kurk that come from sound of that bird make.

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Cool_Penglin@reddit

İndia

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Specific-Ad4666@reddit

They call it "rest of the world"

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Critical-Copy1455@reddit

Pura i puran. In Dalmatia is tuka, l belive.

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Many-Rooster-7905@reddit

Pura as opposite to kura, chicken in slavic countries north of hungary

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ElectricalOnion5765@reddit

In Albania we call it 'sea cock' :D, because it arrived through coastal trade routes.

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NothingSubstantial17@reddit

Türkiye

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mahai0@reddit

Hmm a turkey in Turkey: a turturkekey!

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IcyRefrigerator7626@reddit

Hindi, i think its like short form of Hindi(stan). Hindistan means India.

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777fk@reddit

Culuh , çulluk

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Bendov_er@reddit

Greekey

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japetusgr@reddit

It is called Hindi (Indian)

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RedditAnonDude@reddit

Turkiye

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Mark__78L@reddit

*Turkey

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CheesecakeTurtle@reddit

In Greece it's called Γαλλοπούλα which means a "french bird" or "french girl"

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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.

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klusasan@reddit

USA?

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Wraith305@reddit

American

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ermanp@reddit

Our country

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shko-der@reddit

Gjel deti aka hiken thingy that came thru the sea

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TheyCallHimBabaYagaa@reddit

We have pule too, it just means something a lil bit different

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RammRras@reddit

😂

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theyyg@reddit

And we call tuna the chicken of the sea.

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Nardugan1881@reddit

shark = dogfish (cause bites?)

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Design_pattern@reddit

Ćuran (Serbia)

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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.

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