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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.


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


Maybe the bird will be also called türkiye now.


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


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.


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.




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