Gender | Female |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Iranian |
Other names | |
Derived | Eastern Iranian: تهمرییش Tahm-Rayiš Turkic: Tamyr |
Tomris, Tomiris or Tamiris is a Turkic female name used in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. The name is a modern Turkic derivation of Tomyris (Eastern Iranian: تهمرییش Tahm-Rayiš),[1] an ancient Turkic Massagetae queen from Central Asia.