كېمە

Uyghur

Other scripts
Arabic كېمە
Latin këme‍
Cyrillic кeмә (keme)

Note: The Cyrillic follows the Kazakhstani standard.

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *gẹ̄mi (“boat, vessel”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (kemä, “boat”); Kyrgyz кеме (keme, “ship”), Uzbek kema (“ship”), Shor кебе (“boat”), Tuvan хеме (xeme, “boat”), Azerbaijani gəmi, Turkish gemi, etc.

Noun

كېمە • (këme) (plural كېمىلەر (këmiler))

  1. ship
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