Qırım

Crimean Tatar

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Cyrillic	Къырым
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Etymology

Recorded as قریم (qrym /⁠qırım⁠/) 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 (a geographic region and peninsula in Eastern Europe, jutting out into the Black Sea; de facto occupied and annexed in 2014 as a republic of Russia, but internationally recognized as an autonomous republic of Ukraine :)

   Qırım Hanlığı ― the Crimean Khanate

Declension

Declension of Qırım

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

Related terms

• qırımlı

Descendants

• → Arabic: القِرْم (al-qirm)
• → Chagatai: قریم (qrym /⁠qırım⁠⁠/)
  • Uzbek: Qrim
  • Uyghur: قىرىم (qirim)
• → Latin: Crimaea
  • Italian: Crimea
    • → English: Crimea
  • French: Crimée
    • → Persian: کریمه (kerime)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قریم (kırım), Գըրըմ (Kırım) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: Kırım
  • → Armenian: Խըրըմ (Xərəm)
• → Persian: قرم (qerem)
• → 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
• “Qırım”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)