قارص

Ottoman Turkish

Kars province

Etymology

From Middle Armenian Կարս (Kars).

Proper noun

قارص • (Kars)

Kars (a city and province in Northeast Anatolia, Turkey)

Descendants

Turkish: Kars
→ English: Kars
→ Armenian: Ղարս (Ġars)

Further reading

Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Kars”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Kars”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 432

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