English Explanatory Dictionary

Karaim

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Kipchak Turkic language, with Aramaic and Persian influences, spoken in Lithuania, Poland, the Crimea and the Ukraine.
noun
  1. A member of an ethnic group in Central and Eastern Europe which traditionally spoke this (Turkic) language and practiced Karaite Judaism.
  2. collective plural of Karaim.
  3. A Karaite (especially an Eastern or Central European, Turkic-speaking one).

Word forms

Karaim Karaims

Related words

Karaism Qaraism Karaitism Qaraitism
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