هیرحوم
Bulgar
Etymology
Cognate to Bashkir ҡырҡын (qırqın). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kï̄ŕ.
Noun
هيرحوم (hîrhûm)
- (Volga Bulgar) maiden
- حيت اول جلو هيرحوم اغى [ب]لجر بلوى ك ― Hayyit awli Çaluw hîrhûmi Ağı [B]alçır belüwi kü. ― This is the monument of Hayyit's son Chaluw's maiden Aghy Balchyr.
Descendants
- Chuvash: хӑрхӑм (hărh̬ăm)
Further reading
- Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language][1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 130
- Erdal, Marcel (1993) Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 33