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This article is about a female name. For the Massagetean queen, see Tomyris.
Tomris
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameIranian
Other names
DerivedEastern Iranian: تهم‌رییش Tahm-Rayiš Turkic: Tamyr

Tomris, Tomiris or Tamiris is a Turkic female name people using in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. The name is a modern Turkic derivation of Tomyris (Eastern Iranian: تهم‌رییش Tahm-Rayiš), an ancient scythian Massagetae queen from Central Asia.

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  1. For the etymology see: F. Altheim und R. Stiehl, Geschichte Mittelasiens im Altertum (Berlin, 1970).pp. 127–8
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