English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin Cumani, from Byzantine Greek Κουμάνοι (Koumánoi), perhaps ultimately from the name of the Kuma River.
Pronunciation
Noun
Cuman (plural Cumans)
- (historical) A member of a nomadic Turkic people of central Asia who ruled parts of Eurasia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.
- Synonym: Polovtsian
Translations
member of the Cuman people
- Arabic: كُومَان m (kūmān)
- Azerbaijani: kuman
- Belarusian: по́лавец m (pólavjec)
- Bulgarian: ку́ман m (kúman)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 庫曼人 / 库曼人
- Czech: Plavec m
- French: Couman m
- German: Kumane m, Kumanin f
- Greek: Κουμάνος (el) (Koumános), Κουμάνοι pl (Koumánoi)
- Hindi: कूमान m (kūmān)
- Hungarian: kun (hu)
- Japanese: クマン人 (クマンじん, kumanjin)
- Kazakh: сары қыпшақ (sary qypşaq)
- Khakas: хуман (xuman)
- Korean: 쿠만인 (kumanin)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: کومان (kumân)
- Polish: Połowiec m
- Portuguese: cumano (pt) m
- Romanian: cuman (ro) m
- Russian: по́ловец (ru) m (pólovec)
- Turkish: Kuman (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: قومان (kuman)
- Ukrainian: по́ловець m (pólovecʹ)
- Urdu: کُومان m (kūmān)
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Proper noun
Cuman
- The Turkic language spoken by these people.
Translations
language of the Cuman people
See also
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