Qırım

== Crimean Tatar == === Etymology === Recorded as قریم (qrym /⁠qırım⁠/) in literary Chagatai. Further etymology is disputed and uncertain, some possibilities are as follows: A corruption of the source of Cimmerian (Latin Cimmerium), From Proto-Turkic *qurum (“protection, defense”), From Ancient Greek κρημνοί (krēmnoí, “cliffs”), mentioned by Herodotus, from Ancient Greek κρημνός (krēmnós, “trench's edge”), Compared to Karakhanid [Term?] (/⁠qarïm⁠/, “ditch”) and Karakhanid قُرُمْ (qorum, “a massive rock, a pile of rocks”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /qɯˈrɯm/, [qɨ̞̆ˈɾɨ̞m] Hyphenation: Qı‧rım === Proper noun === Qırım 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 ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== 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-TurkishTurkish: Kırım→ Armenian: Խըրըմ (Xərəm) → Persian: قرم (qerem) → Russian: Крым (Krym) → Ukrainian: Крим (Krym) === Notes === === 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)