Where does “Ajami Turkic” come from?

Ajami Turkic (English) comes from English Turkic, from English turk, from Turkish Türk, from Ottoman Turkish ترك, from Persian ترک, from Middle Persian twlk', from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜, from Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k — Turk, Turkic people.

Ajami Turkic (English): A historical division of the Azerbaijani language that was used as the administrative and literary language of Persia (Safavid Iran, Afsharid Iran and Qajar Iran)

Definitions

  1. A historical division of the Azerbaijani language that was used as the administrative and literary language of Persia (Safavid Iran, Afsharid Iran and Qajar Iran)

Ancestry of “Ajami Turkic”, step by step

Ajami Turkic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Turkic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishTurkicOf or relating to this language group or the...
2EnglishturkA person of an ethnically diverse linguistic group that speaks the Turkic languages
3TurkishTürkTurk; Turkish
4Ottoman TurkishتركTurk
5Persianترکcrack
6Middle Persiantwlk'
7Old Turkic𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜Turk
8Proto-Turkic*tür(ü)kTurk, Turkic people

via Hausa ajami

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1HausaajamiArabic script used for Hausa
2Arabicعَجَمِيّbarbarian; non-Arab, barbarian
Every word from Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k