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Rum en · PROPN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English and Old English, from Proto-West Germanic *Rūmu, from Proto-Germanic *Rūmō under influence from Late Latin Rōma (“Rome; Constantinople; Roman Empire”), from Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, archaic, obsolete) Alternative form of Rome: Rome (a major city in Italy).
   alt of Rome

Rum en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Seljuk Old Anatolian Turkish and Ottoman Turkish روم (Rum, “Rome; Byzantine Empire; central Anatolia”), from Arabic رُوم (Rūm, “Rome; Byzantine Empire”), from Middle Persian 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬 (Hrom), from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía, “Byzantine Empire”), from Latin Romani (“Romans”), from Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Roma and Rome.

Meanings

1. (historical) An eyalet in the Ottoman Empire.
2. (historical) A former polity in Anatolia, a Seljuk sultanate.
3. (archaic) Synonym of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts.

Forms

Synonyms

Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts · Sivas (Ottoman eyalet)

Rum en · PROPN · etymology 3

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Rùm, an island of the Inner Hebrides, Highland council area, Scotland, United Kingdom.
   alt of Rùm