What is the opposite of turkey?

1. Is Turkey a bad word?
2. What is the opposite of nationality?
3. What is the old name of Turkey?
4. What is the full name of Turkey?
5. Does Peru mean Turkey?
6. Why are turkeys called Turkey?
7. Is nationality and race the same?
8. What is a nationality example?
9. Who built Istanbul?
10. What is Turkey's main religion?

Is Turkey a bad word?

Beloved as turkeys may be as holiday-eating fare, you, as a human, probably don't want to be called a turkey. The word is an insult, referring to a person who has done something ill advised or stupid, as in that uncle who decides to introduce his new girlfriend to his ex-wife on Thanksgiving Day.

What is the opposite of nationality?

Opposite of a group of persons associated with a nation, class, or ethnic group. foreigners. outlanders. strangers. outsiders.

What is the old name of Turkey?

The English name Turkey, now applied to the modern Republic of Turkey, is historically derived (via Old French Turquie) from the Medieval Latin Turchia, Turquia. It is first recorded in Middle English (as Turkye, Torke, later Turkie, Turky), attested in Chaucer, ca.

What is the full name of Turkey?

Formal Name: Republic of Turkey (Turkiye Cumhuriyeti).

Does Peru mean Turkey?

In French, a turkey is a coq d'inde or dinde—a name that references India. ... The Portuguese are no less geographically misguided, as they took their name for the turkey, peru, from the South American country conquered by the Spanish around the same time that turkeys began appearing on European tables.

Why are turkeys called Turkey?

When British settlers got off the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay Colony and saw their first American woodland fowl, even though it is larger than the African Guinea fowl, they decided to call it by the name they already used for the African bird. Wild forest birds like that were called "turkeys" at home.

Is nationality and race the same?

Nationality refers to the country of citizenship. Nationality is sometimes used to mean ethnicity, although the two are technically different. People can share the same nationality but be of different ethnic groups and people who share an ethnic identity can be of different nationalities.

What is a nationality example?

Your nationality is the country you come from: American, Canadian, and Russian are all nationalities. ... A person's nationality is where they are a legal citizen, usually in the country where they were born. People from Mexico have Mexican nationality, and people from Australia have Australian nationality.

Who built Istanbul?

In 330 A.D., Constantine established the city that would make its mark in the ancient world as Constantinople, but also would become known by other names, including the Queen of Cities, Istinpolin, Stamboul and Istanbul.

What is Turkey's main religion?

Islam is the largest religion in Turkey. More than 99 percent of the population is Muslim, mostly Sunni. Christianity (Oriental Orthodoxy, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic) and Judaism are the other religions in practice, but the non-Muslim population declined in the early 2000s.