Қырым

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic قىرىم
Cyrillic Қырым
Latin Qyrym

Etymology

From Crimean Tatar Qırım, likely through Chagatai قریم (qrym /⁠qırım⁠/).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Қырым • (Qyrym)

  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 :)
  2. (figurative) distant or remote place; Timbuktu
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