Karadeniz

Meaning

1. Black Sea
2. a surname

Hyphenated as

Ka‧ra‧de‧niz

Pronounced as (IPA)

[kä.ɾä́.d̪e̞.n̪iz̪]

Etymology

Directly, from Ottoman Turkish قره دكز (Kara Deñiz). Perhaps going back to Proto-Turkic *kara teŋiŕ (literally “north sea; black sea”) (compare Chuvash Хура тинӗс (Hura t̬inĕs)) or earlier (compare Mongolian Хар тэнгис (Xar tengis)), equivalent to kara (“black; north”) + deniz (“sea”).

Sentences

Oradan Karadeniz kıyısına geldiler.

From there, they came to the Black Sea coast.