kavim

Meaning

A group of people who share a common culture, language, traditions, as well as ancestry; a people, nation, tribe.

Concepts

folk

people

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society

eponym

Synonyms

ulus

millet

soy

👪

halk

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

ırk

kabile

milliyet

topluluk

aşiret

etnik grup

boy

budun

hısım

Translations

ethnie

أُمَّة

nation

peuple

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qom

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kaˈvim/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: قوم

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوم (ḳavm, “a party, group, class of people, a people, nation”), from Old Anatolian Turkish قوم (qevm), from Arabic قَوْم (qawm, “people, nation, tribe”), from قَامَ (qāma, “to rise, to stand up”).