هیرحوم

Bulgar

Etymology

Cognate to Bashkir ҡырҡын (qırqın). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kï̄ŕ.

Noun

هيرحوم (hîrhûm)

  1. (Volga Bulgar) maiden
    حيت اول جلو هيرحوم اغى [ب]لجر بلوى كHayyit 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