soykırım

Turkish

Etymology

By surface analysis, soy (“ancestry, family, race”) +‎ kırım (“act of breaking”). Modeled on French and English genocide. Compare Uyghur ئىرقىي قىرغىنچىلىق (irqiy qirghinchiliq).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsoj.kɯ.ɾɯm/
  • Hyphenation: soy‧kı‧rım

Noun

soykırım (definite accusative soykırımı, plural soykırımlar)

  1. genocide [from 1975]

Declension

Declension of soykırım
singular plural
nominative soykırım soykırımlar
definite accusative soykırımı soykırımları
dative soykırıma soykırımlara
locative soykırımda soykırımlarda
ablative soykırımdan soykırımlardan
genitive soykırımın soykırımların

Derived terms

  • Ermeni Soykırımı (“the Armenian Genocide”)
  • Yahudi Soykırımı (“the Holocaust”, literally “the Jewish Genocide”)

Descendants

  • → Azerbaijani: soyqırım

Further reading

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