Karaim

Proper noun

 * 1) A Kipchak Turkic language, with Aramaic and Persian influences, spoken in Lithuania, Poland, the Crimea and the Ukraine.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * German:, Karaïmisch
 * Kazakh: қарайым тілі
 * Turkish: ,
 * Uzbek: qaraim tili

Noun

 * 1) A member of an ethnic group in Central and Eastern Europe which traditionally spoke this (Turkic) language and practiced Karaite Judaism.
 * 2) * 1970, Alan W. Fisher, The Russian Annexation of the Crimea 1772-1783 ISBN 0521076811, page 120:
 * He began to develop closer relations with his Karaim subjects and issued a charter to a Karaim named Iosif to try again to establish a mint. The Karaim Rabbi wrote that after the Christians had left,
 * 1) * 1981, Bernard Comrie, The Languages of the Soviet Union, pages 2, 47, and 49:
 * At times the discrepancy can be even greater: only 12.8% of the Karaim, a Turkic-speaking group living for the most part in Lithuania, declared Karaim as their native language.
 * the Karaim, who are by religion (though not ethnically) Jews, a unique survival of the adoption of Judaism as the official religion of the Khazar empire
 * The Karaim are being rapidly assimilated, ethnically and especially linguistically, to the surrounding Russian population.
 * 1)  A Karaite.
 * 2) * 1882 January 9, Wickham Hoffman, in a letter to Mr. Frelinghuysen, published in the Index to the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-Seventh Congress, 1882-'83, page 44:
 * He added that he was not "one of those Talmud Jews"; that he belonged to the American Reformed Church, known in Russia as the Karaim Jews. As soon as General Kosloff understood that Moses was a Karaim Jew, he told the consul-general to send the man to him the next morning
 * The Karaim are being rapidly assimilated, ethnically and especially linguistically, to the surrounding Russian population.
 * 1)  A Karaite.
 * 2) * 1882 January 9, Wickham Hoffman, in a letter to Mr. Frelinghuysen, published in the Index to the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-Seventh Congress, 1882-'83, page 44:
 * He added that he was not "one of those Talmud Jews"; that he belonged to the American Reformed Church, known in Russia as the Karaim Jews. As soon as General Kosloff understood that Moses was a Karaim Jew, he told the consul-general to send the man to him the next morning
 * He added that he was not "one of those Talmud Jews"; that he belonged to the American Reformed Church, known in Russia as the Karaim Jews. As soon as General Kosloff understood that Moses was a Karaim Jew, he told the consul-general to send the man to him the next morning

Translations

 * German: Karaime, Karaimin, Karaïme, Karaïmin
 * Kazakh: қарайым
 * Ukrainian: караї́м, караї́мка


 * German: Karaim, Karaïm


 * German: Karaime, Karaimin, Karaïme, Karaïmin