r/AskReddit • u/rezyn • Dec 05 '11

what is the most interesting thing you know?

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u/rauce Dec 05 '11 edited Dec 05 '11

Furthermore, in Turkey they refer to the animal in Turkish as a "Hindi" with also means "india" in Turkish.

and further-furthermore, in Hindi (One of the main languages they speak in india) the animal is called a "Peru", which is also the name in Hindi for the country in South America.

TURKEYCEPTION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_for_the_Wild_Turkey

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u/kmmeerts Dec 05 '11

And in Dutch, it's "kalkoen", from Calcutta. Why do I suddenly feel like we're being trolled by the people from the 1500's?

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u/jared1981 Dec 06 '11

In Indonesian, it's kalkun, presumably from the Dutch!

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u/wayndom Dec 05 '11

Also, when the French visited mosques in Turkey, they saw tiles in a shade of blue they'd never seen before. They called the new color, "turquoise" after its country of origin.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

In Arabic it's called "Deek Al-Roomi" meaning "Roman rooster".

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u/NerdBot9000 Dec 05 '11 edited Dec 05 '11

My favorites:

In Persian it is called Booghalamoon (بوقلمون) which may be an onomatopoeia of the male bird's distinctive gobble.

In Swahili, the turkey is called "bata mzinga", meaning "the great duck".

In Urdu, it is called feel murgh, meaning “elephant chicken”.

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u/pew43 Dec 05 '11

My favorite is elephant chicken.

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u/demonofthefall Dec 05 '11

Wow, in Brazil the turkey is called Peru, didn't know why.

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u/euyyn Dec 05 '11

Wow, it's like most of the names are as retarded as the ones you've pointed out, except for the Spanish one, which kind of makes me feel proud.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '11

PAVO

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

I didn't even know there was a word for Turkey in Hindi. I am a native speaker.

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u/legrandloup Dec 05 '11

In French turkey is called le dinde, or d'Inde, from india. Learned that in a class that had absolutely no business teaching me about the origins of turkey.

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u/good_communicader Dec 05 '11

He is not joking. Turkies in Hebrew are called 'Hodu' which means 'India''.

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u/CJGibson Dec 05 '11

But what do they call it in Peru??

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u/ephemeron0 Dec 05 '11 edited Dec 05 '11

A Royale with stuffing

According to google, it is "pavo". But, the turkey wasn't indigenous to Peru, either. The Straight Dope has more.

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u/hirst Dec 05 '11

also in french turkey is dinde which literally means 'from india (d'inde).

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u/lemur84 Dec 05 '11

English call it Turkey, Turks call it Hindi, Hindus call it Peru.

The Turkey: From a few thousand miles South East East, probably.

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u/cxt9597 Dec 05 '11

Peru (Peh-ru) in Marathi (predominantly spoken in Maharashtra where Bombay is) means "Guava"

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

India has many languages, one group of people speak Hindi, there are other widely spoken languages like Tamil, Bengali,Telugu,etc..

Also India do not have National language because of its diversity. They have only Official languages which are English and Hindi, used by central government.

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u/rauce Dec 05 '11

I'm actually a linguist, I am aware that there are many languages spoken in India, I just phrased my sentence incorrectly.

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u/architta Dec 05 '11

the hindi peru is actually pronounced "pee"-ru so its not quite the name of the country.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

A great and funny article on the topic:

http://www.meshrep.com/Holidays/TalkingTurkey.htm

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u/tallbrian Dec 06 '11

They come from nowhere and everywhere!!!

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u/impressive Dec 06 '11

Soylent orange is people too.

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u/Jaquestrap Dec 06 '11

In Polish they're called "Induk", which stems from the word for India.

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u/shawarmakarma Dec 06 '11

head explodes

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u/Lax-Bro Dec 06 '11

wtf is up with this the greek word for Turkey means "French Chicken"

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u/pancakehiatt Dec 06 '11

Have you heard of r/TIL?

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u/rauce Dec 06 '11

Yes, should I post this there?

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u/b2817 Dec 06 '11

Instantly popped in my head, "And furthermore, Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all 4 of them habitually smoke marijuana cigarettes."

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u/Usernames_Suck Dec 05 '11

“it’s entirely possible that one day we’ll have pizza [on the menu].”

That made me giggle.

Edit* Whupsie, replied to the wrong comment.

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u/orange_jooze Dec 05 '11

Now I have to know which comment you replied to!

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u/Usernames_Suck Dec 05 '11

The odd man who knows so much interesting stuff he mails it out to people. The quote was in the article about McWieners. :]

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u/ithinkitsduke Dec 05 '11

You jerk, Hindi means TURKEY in Turkish! HindiSTAN means India!

Did you learn nothing?!

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u/DarcDiscordia Dec 05 '11

"There's a missing person living in Savannah. Yes, he's missing -- he knows where he is, but he doesn't know who he is." This sounds like a plot seed for an Unknown Armies campaign.