soykırım
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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
Noun
soykırım (definite accusative soykırımı, plural soykırımlar)
Declension
| 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
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “soykırım”, in Nişanyan Sözlük