Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word KARAIM
KARAIM
Definitions of KARAIM
- A member of an ethnic group in Central and Eastern Europe which traditionally spoke this (Turkic) language and practiced Karaite Judaism.
- A Kipchak Turkic language, with Aramaic and Persian influences, spoken in Lithuania, Poland, the Crimea and the Ukraine.
- (rare) inflection of Karaim.
- (rare) A Karaite (especially an Eastern or Central European, Turkic-speaking one).
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using KARAIM in a Sentence
- Nikolay Baskakov, based on a 12th-century scripture named Codex Cumanicus, included modern Kumyk, Karachai-Balkar, Crimean Tatar, Karaim, and the language of Mamluk Kipchaks in the linguistic family of the Cuman-Kipchak language.
- Sima ben Salomon Babovich (Karaim: Сима Бабович - Sima Babovich, ; 1790–1855) was a first Hakham of the Russian Crimean Karaites, one of the early figures in the Crimean Karaites movement.
- As a secular Jew and orientalist he was influenced by Atatürk's reforms, and his policy was dictated by several considerations: Jews were suffering from harassment in public and private in Eastern Europe; he wished to forestall the threat he had intuited was imminent in both Fascism and Nazism, which were beginning to gain a foothold; he was passionate about the Karaites' language, Karaim, and its Turkish tradition, and somewhat insouciant of the Judaic heritage of his people.
- Karaim (Judeo-Crimean) (Qaray tili / Karaj tili) (a different language from Krymchak, not confuse with Krymchak).
- His research interests include Karaite Studies, Jewish history in Eastern Europe, Holocaust, Roma studies, various aspects of Crimean history, Khazars, Krymchaks, Crimean Tatars, Subbotniki (Sabbatarians), the history of slavery in the Ottoman Crimea and Crimean Khanate, Mangup and Chufut-Kale, Roma (Gypsy) community of the Crimea, Karaim language, literature of the Crimean Jews in Turkic languages, and more.
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