Qırım
Crimean Tatar edit
Alternative forms edit
- Къырым (Cyrillic)
Etymology edit
Recorded as قریم (q[i]rīm /qïrïm/) in literary Chagatai.
Further long disputed and uncertain, some possibilities are:
- A corruption of the source of Cimmerian (Latin Cimmerium)
- From the old Turkic word *qurum (“protection, defense”)
- From Ancient Greek κρημνοί (krēmnoí, “cliffs”), mentioned by Herodotus, from κρημνός (krēmnós, “trench's edge”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Qırım
- Crimea (peninsula)
- Qırım Hanlığı ― the Crimean Khanate
Declension edit
Declension of Qırım
nominative | Qırım |
---|---|
genitive | Qırımnıñ |
dative | Qırımğa |
accusative | Qırımnı |
locative | Qırımda |
ablative | Qırımdan |
Descendants edit
References edit
- Cimmerium in Encyclopedia Britannica 4th edition (1810). Alexander MacBean, Samuel Johnson, Cimmerium in A Dictionary of Ancient Geography (1773).
- George Vernadsky, Michael Karpovich, A History of Russia, Yale University Press, 1952, p. 53.
- Herodotus, The Histories, Book 4, chapter 20