دیاربكر

Ottoman Turkish

Diyarbakır province

Etymology

From دیار (diyar), plural form of دار (dar, “house; land, country”), + بكر (bekr, bekir, “Banu Bakr, an Arabian tribe”), a name given after the Muslim conquest of the 7th century; before the conquest, the city was known as آمد (âmid) or قره آمد (kara âmid).

Proper noun

دیاربكر • (diyarbekir)

1. Diyarbakır (a city and province in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey)

   Synonyms: آمد (âmid), قره آمد (kara âmid) (historical)

Descendants

• Turkish: Diyarbakır

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Diyarbakır”, 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) “دیاربكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 931
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Diyarbakır”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 223