a. (sb.) Also 8 toorkay, 8–9 toorkee, toorky. [a. Pers. turkī, deriv. of Turk, applied to language and race: cf. Shirāzī, Panjābī, Hindūstānī, etc.] Turkish; belonging to the typical Turkic languages, East and West Turki, and to the peoples speaking them. b. sb. A member of the Turkish race; also, a Turkish horse.
1782. India Gaz., 2 March (Yule). To be disposed of … a Buggy,… a pair of uncommonly beautiful spotted Toorkays.
1800. Misc. Tr., in Asiat. Ann. Reg., 189/1. A Toorky horse which I generally rode.
1841. Elphinstone, Hist. Ind., II. i. The Túrki slaves, who rose to sovereignty throughout Asia, and … furnished a succession of rulers to India.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 1/2. Corrupt Turki dialects spoken by Tatarized Finn populations from the Altai to the Urals.
1907. Blackw. Mag., May, 661/2. The Turki can holloa. Ibid., June, 807/1. He had a Turki interpreter.
