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.

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

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