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Turcoman   Listen
proper noun
Turcoman  n.  (pl. turcomans)  
1.
A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea.
2.
A Turcoman carpet.
Turcoman carpet or Turcoman rug, a kind of carpet or rug supposed to be made by the Turcomans.





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"Turcoman" Quotes from Famous Books



... more ancient illustrations, Noldeke recalls the fact that in a period of only ten years, from 1030 to 1040 a.d., the princes reigning over the Iranian lands rid themselves by similar methods of the Turcoman bands which harassed them. Such a proceeding has never been repugnant to Oriental morality, and it is of a kind to fix itself in the popular mind: far from wishing to suppress it, I should be inclined to see in it the nucleus of the ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 8 (of 12) • G. Maspero


Words linked to "Turcoman" :   Turkmen, Turki, Turkic language, Turkoman, Turko-Tatar


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