Tekeli Explained

Tekeli is a Turkish word derived from teke ("male goat"), and means "having or possessing goats; goaty". It may refer to

Literature

• Tekeli (play), a play about the life of Hungarian nobleman Imre Thököly, written by Theodore Hook
• Tekeli-li, a cry of terror in Edgar Allan Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
• Tekeli-li, a cry borrowed from Poe, in H. P. Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness

People

• Tekeli (surname)

Places

• Tekeli, Kazakhstan, a town in Karasay District
• Tekeli, Bozyazı, a town in Bozyazı district, Mersin Province, Turkey
• Tekeli, İzmir, a settlement in Menderes, İzmir, Turkey
• Tekeli, Koçarlı, a village in Aydın Province, Turkey
• Tekeli, Mut, a village in Mut district, Mersin Province
• Tekeli, Oltu

Other uses

• Tekeli Mehmet Pasha Mosque, a mosque in Antalya, Turkey
• Tekeli (dance), a popular dance in early 19th-century Britain