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turkmenistan

UK/ˌtɜːkmɛn.ɪˈstɑːn/US/tɚkˈmɛn.ɪ.stæn/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Turkmenistan is a Central Asian desert country with a burning gas crater. Cross Turkmenistan.

The crater at Darvaza was set alight in 1971 and has burned ever since. Turkmenistan is about eighty per cent desert and among the least visited countries on earth.

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Definitions of turkmenistan

  1. 1nounturkmenistanCentral Asian desert country with a burning gas crater.C1

    “Turkmenistan sits on enormous reserves of natural gas.”

turkmenistan is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. fa-cls

    ـستان — -stan

  2. tk

    Türkmenistan

  3. English

    Turkmenistan

  4. English, today

    turkmenistan

Built from

  • Türkmen · tk — Turk-like; Turkmen

Turkmenistan comes from tk Türkmenistan, from Türkmen (“Turk-like; Turkmen”) + fa-cls ـستان (“-stan”). by surface analysis, Turkmen + -istan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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