Karaim
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A member of an ethnic group in Central and Eastern Europe which traditionally spoke this (Turkic) language and practiced Karaite Judaism.
"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, […]"
- 2 collective plural of Karaim. collective, form-of, plural, rare
"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."
- 3 A Karaite (especially an Eastern or Central European, Turkic-speaking one). rare
"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 […]"
- 1 A Kipchak Turkic language, with Aramaic and Persian influences, spoken in Lithuania, Poland, the Crimea and the Ukraine.
"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."
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