Tomris

Tomris
Gender Female
Origin
Word/name Iranian, Turkic
Region of origin Turkey, Kazakhstan
Other names
Derived

Eastern Iranian: تهم‌رییش Tahm-Rayiš

Turkic: Tamyr
Usage Turkey, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Tomris is a Turkic female name used in Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. The name is a modern Turkish derivation of Tomyris (Eastern Iranian: تهم‌رییش Tahm-Rayiš),[1] an ancient Iranian Massagetae queen from Central Asia or from the Turkic root temür/tamyr/temir (Old Turkic: temir - "demir")[2] meaning iron, and a common Turkic name in history and current day.

People

References

  1. For the etymology see: F. Altheim und R. Stiehl, Geschichte Mittelasiens im Altertum (Berlin, 1970).pp. 127–8
  2. Adolf Erman: Archiv fur wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland, Book 1, Reimer, 1968, pp.386
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