Qırım
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Crimean Tatar
| Other scripts | |
|---|---|
| Cyrillic | Къырым |
| Roman | |
Etymology
Recorded as قریم (qrīm /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
Proper noun
Qırım
- Crimea (peninsula)
- Qırım Hanlığı ― the Crimean Khanate
Declension
| nominative | Qırım |
|---|---|
| genitive | Qırımnıñ |
| dative | Qırımğa |
| accusative | Qırımnı |
| locative | Qırımda |
| ablative | Qırımdan |
Related terms
Descendants
- → Latin: Crimaea
- → Russian: Крым (Krym)
- → Ukrainian: Крим (Krym)
- → Persian: قرم (qerem)
- → Ottoman Turkish: قریم (kırım)
- → Chagatai: قریم (qïrïm)
References
- 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
- “Qırım”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)