قریم

Ottoman Turkish

قریم

Etymology

Ultimately from Crimean Tatar Qırım (“Crimea”).

Proper noun

قریم • (kırım)

1. Crimea (a peninsula in the Black Sea, Europe, officially part of Ukraine, annexed by Russia).

Derived terms

• قریم تاتارلری (kırım tatarları, “Crimean Tatars”)
• قریم جزیره‌سی (kırım ceziresi, “Crimean peninsula”)
• قریملی (kırımlı, “Crimean”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: Kırım
• → Armenian: Խըրըմ (Xərəm)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قریم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 958
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قریم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1451
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Kırım”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[3], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 461