دیاربكر
Ottoman Turkish
Diyarbakır province
Etymology
From دیار (diyar), plural form of دار (dar, “house; land, country”), + بكر (bekr, bekir, “Banu Bakr, an Arabian tribe”), a name given after the Muslim conquest of the 7th century; before the conquest, the city was known as آمد (âmid) or قره آمد (kara âmid).
Proper noun
دیاربكر • (diyarbekir)
- Diyarbakır (a city and province in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey)
- Synonyms: آمد (âmid), قره آمد (kara âmid) (historical)
Descendants
- Turkish: Diyarbakır
Further reading
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Diyarbakır”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیاربكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 931
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Diyarbakır”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 223
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