Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Question for October 13th - Ishani

Short and simple question about something that confused people all over the world for very long!

X goes by the name "hindi" in Turkey, "peru" in Portuguese, "Ethiopian" in Arabic, "French girl" in Greek, "india" in French and interestingly, "chameleon" in Persian.

What is X.

3 comments:

Gaurav Kane said...

Turkey!! (the animal) I did ask a Turkish person at work though

Rahul said...

flat bread?

The Answer said...

Yep, Turkey is the answer.
Good job, Kane!

If you are wondering what's the fuss about this bird, you can read this nice article -
http://web.mit.edu/mskilic/www/turkeyname.html