Chorasmia

English

Alternative forms

• Chorezm
• Harezm, Horezm
• Kharezm, Kharesm
• Khorasam, Khoresm, Khorezm
• Khwarazm, Khwarizm, Khwarezm, Khwarezmia
• Khowarezm, Khowaresm, Khovarezm, Khovaresm

Etymology

From Latin Chorasmia, from Ancient Greek Χορασμία (Khorasmía), from Old Persian 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐏁 (u-v-a-r-z-mi-i-š /⁠^huvārazmī-⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹæzmi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Chorasmia

2. A large oasis geographical region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia; currently split politically between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

Derived terms

• Chorasmian

Translations

large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia

• Arabic: خُوَارِزْم (ḵuwārizm)
• Armenian: Խորեզմ (Xorezm)
• Azerbaijani: Xarəzm
• Bengali: খোয়ারাজম (khōẇarajom)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花剌子模 (zh) (huālàzǐmó)

• French: Chorasmie (fr) f
• Georgian: ხვარაზმი (xvarazmi)
• German: Choresmien
• Greek: Χορασμία f (Chorasmía)

  Ancient Greek: Χορασμίᾱ f (Khorasmíā)

• Hindi: ख़्वारज़्म (xvārazm)
• Italian: Corasmia f
• Japanese: ホラズム (horazumu)
• Kazakh: Хорезм (Xorezm)
• Korean: 화레즘 (hwarejeum)
• Latin: Chorasmia f
• Pashto: خوارزم (xwārəzm)
• Persian: خوارزم (fa) (xârazm)

  Classical Persian: خوارزم (fa) (xwārazm)

  Dari: خوارزم (fa) (xārazm)

  Old Persian: 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐏁 (u-v-a-r-z-mi-i-š), 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐎹 (u-v-a-r-z-mi-i-y /⁠^huvārazmī-⁠/)

• Portuguese: Corásmia f
• Russian: Хорезм (ru) (Xorezm)
• Spanish: Corasmia f, Jorasmia f
• Swahili: Khorezmia
• Tajik: Хоразм (Xorazm)
• Turkish: Harezm
• Uyghur: خارەزىم (xarezim)
• Uzbek: Xorazm

Anagrams

• achromias

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Χορασμία (Khorasmía), from Old Persian 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐏁 (u-v-a-r-z-mi-i-š /⁠^huvārazmī-⁠/).

Proper noun

Chorasmia f sg (genitive Chorasmiae); first declension

1. Chorasmia, Khwarazm (a large oasis geographical region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia; currently split politically between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Chorasmia
genitive	Chorasmiae
dative	Chorasmiae
accusative	Chorasmiam
ablative	Chorasmiā
vocative	Chorasmia
locative	Chorasmiae

Descendants

• French: Chorasmie
• Italian: Corasmia
• → English: Chorasmia

Portuguese

Proper noun

Chorasmia f

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Corásmia