List of English Words of Turkic Origin - M

M

Mammoth

from Russian mamot, mamont, mamant, perhaps from a Yakut word derived from Yakut mamma "earth"; from the belief that the mammoths burrowed in the earth like moles.

Martagon

from Middle English, from Old French, from Old Spanish, from Ottoman Turkish martagan, "a kind of turban".

Merdiban

an accounting method used by the Ottoman empire, Abbasid empire, and the Ilkhanate; from a word meaning "Ladder" or "Staircase".