Crossword clues for turkoman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turkoman \Tur"ko*man\, n.; pl. Turkomans. Same as Turcoman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Turcoman, c.1600, from Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Persian Turkman, literally "Turk-like," from Turk + -man "like."
Wikipedia
Turkoman (foaled April 11, 1982 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
Usage examples of "turkoman".
I might not die of cold, or heat, or thirst, or starvation, or at the hands of robbers, Pathans, Tadjiks, Uzbeks, or Turkomen.
The Turkomans, who speak a Turkish dialect, have preserved their language but are no longer tribally organized.
A Turkoman ancient with a skullcap, two boys beside him (his grandsons, perhaps), circumambulated the tower, glancing up at it now and then.
The chief from whom the dynasty of Seljuks derived its appellation, was by birth a Turkoman, of Turkistan, on the north-eastern side of the river Sihon or Jaxartes, but in the service of a prince of Khozar, on the Wolga, from which he fled and pursued his fortune in Transoxiana.
He did not wish to be found where the Turkomans might connect him with the vanishing of the treasure they had battled to win.
The Turkomans squatted silently about their tiny fires, casting furtive glances over their shoulders.
They fired one wild, ragged volley, and then the Turkomans surged up over the wall in an irresistible wave and were slashing and hacking like madmen among the defenders.
In reality, the Afghan chief came storming out of the tower just as the Turkomans came surging over the wall.
The remnants of the Pathans were fleeing over the wall, harried by the triumphant Turkomans, who in victory were no more merciful than the average Oriental.
What had been an advantage was now a danger, for the men at the head of the valley would be coming at full run, and in the light of the fire they could pick off the Turkomans from the darkness.
The Turkomans fired point-blank into their faces, but they came on, snarling, snatching at the rifle barrels poked over the wall, stabbing upward.
No time to look right or left to see if the Turkomans still held the wall on either hand.
But if he returned to Shahrazar with the Turkomans, he must give the letter to Suleiman Pasha or be denounced to Orkhan - and that meant torture and death.
The Turkomans, who reverence Mahomet and follow his law, are a rude people, and dull of intellect.
Having acquired great celebrity, they were at length enabled, by the means of numerous tribes of Turkomans who joined their standard, to establish a sovereignty, or, in point of extent, an empire, the principal seat of which was in Persia.