قریم
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Ultimately from Crimean Tatar Qırım (“Crimea”).
Proper noun
قریم • (kırım)
- Crimea (a geographic region and peninsula in Eastern Europe, jutting out into the Black Sea)
Derived terms
- قریم تاتارلری (kırım tatarları, “Crimean Tatars”)
- قریم جزیرهسی (kırım ceziresi, “Crimean peninsula”)
- قریملی (kırımlı, “Crimean”)
Descendants
- Turkish: Kırım
- → Armenian: Խըրըմ (Xərəm)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قریم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 958
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قریم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1451
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Kırım”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][3], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 461