ازمیر

Ottoman Turkish

Izmir province

Alternative forms

• Իզմիր (İzmir) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek Σμύρνᾱ (Smúrnā).

Proper noun

ازمیر • (İzmir)

1. Izmir (a city and province in the Aegean region, Turkey)

Derived terms

• ازمیر كورفزی (İzmir körfezi, “Gulf of İzmir”)

Descendants

• Turkish: İzmir

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “İzmir”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ازمیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 82
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “İzmir”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 390