kırım
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قیرم. By surface analysis, kır- (“to break”) + ım. Unrelated to Kırım (“Crimea”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kırım (definite accusative kırımı, plural kırımlar)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- Ermeni Soykırımı (“Armenian Genocide”)
- soykırım (“genocide”)
- Yahudi Soykırımı (“the Holocaust”, literally “the Jewish Genocide”)
Further reading
[edit]- “kırım”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kırım”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “kırım”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı