Rum.
An eyalet in the Ottoman Empire.
Meaning & usage
An eyalet in the Ottoman Empire.
A former polity in Anatolia, a Seljuk sultanate.
Synonym of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts.
Where this word comes from
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.
Alternative form of Rùm, an island of the Inner Hebrides, Highland council area, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.