Qırım
Crimean Tatar
Alternative forms
- Къырым (Cyrillic)
Etymology
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”).
Proper noun
Qırım
- Crimea (peninsula)
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