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Amed

Diyarbakır (kurdischer Name)

Geschlecht: Junge
Herkunft: Geografie
Aussprache: AH-med

Die Geschichte des Namens

Amed — the Kurdish name of the city now officially called Diyarbakır. From the ancient Amid, attested in Roman and Aramaic sources; Kurmancî has kept the older form. As a name, Amed puts a city into a word — the city whose black walls still stand.

Etymologie

Wurzel: Amed · Toponym

Amed is the Kurdish name for the city now officially called Diyarbakır in Turkey. The pre-modern name Amid / Āmida is attested in Roman, Byzantine and Aramaic sources for the same site, and the Kurmancî form preserves that older name. Using Amed is a deliberate cultural-political choice.

Namensfamilie

Hewlêr · cognate — the Kurdish name of Erbil

Geografie
modern

Aktualisiert: 2026-05-02