Qırım

Crimean Tatar

Alternative forms

• Къырым (Cyrillic)

Etymology

Recorded as قریم (q[i]rīm /⁠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

• IPA^(key): /qɯ.rɯm/
• Hyphenation: Qı‧rım

Proper noun

Qırım

1. Crimea (peninsula)

   Qırım Hanlığı ― the Crimean Khanate

Declension

Declension of Qırım

nominative	Qırım
genitive	Qırımnıñ
dative	Qırımğa
accusative	Qırımnı
locative	Qırımda
ablative	Qırımdan

Descendants

• → Italian: Crimea
  • → English: Crimea
• → Russian: Крым (Krym)
• → Ukrainian: Крим (Krym)

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