قریم

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Ultimately from Crimean Tatar Qırım (Crimea).

Proper noun

قریم • (kırım)

  1. 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