ISO name change for Türkiye

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by egeozcan on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:20AM (#32067449)

Also Hindistan (Land of the Hindi) means India, and "hindi" means turkey, in Turkish. Mısır also means corn and also Egypt in the same language.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by dizhn on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @06:40AM (#32067959)

Yup. It's pretty ignorant to call India the land of turkeys,while throwing a fit when other countries call yours Turkey.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by timeon on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @08:46AM (#32069068)

Maybe the bird will be also called türkiye now.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by cetinkaya on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @09:13AM (#32069399)

Hindistan comes from Hindustan (India in Persian), not from the bird hindi (turkey).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by dizhn on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:57AM (#32094737)

Good to know. But it doesn't matter in the context of this discussion. It still means Land of Turkeys in Turkish. Not really of course, just like Turkey does not mean turkey in English.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by walrus01 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:44PM (#32075433)

And the actual bird, in Iranian Farsi, is a "booghoolamoo", which is roughly the same idea as the gobbling noise a turkey makes.

In Afghan Farsi (Dari) the bird is a "feel murgh" which translates as Elephant Chicken.

[ Parent | on HN ]