soykırım
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From soy (“ancestry”) + kırım (“breaking, killing”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
soykırım (definite accusative soykırımı, plural soykırımlar)
- genocide (the systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities)
Declension edit
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | soykırım | |
| Definite accusative | soykırımı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | soykırım | soykırımlar |
| Definite accusative | soykırımı | soykırımları |
| Dative | soykırıma | soykırımlara |
| Locative | soykırımda | soykırımlarda |
| Ablative | soykırımdan | soykırımlardan |
| Genitive | soykırımın | soykırımların |
Descendants edit
- → Azerbaijani: soyqırım