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Tatar poet and linguist (1894–1982)

Yusuf Isa HalimIusuf Isa Halim
Born 1894 (1894)Bílbíl, today Ciocârlia, Constanța County, Romania
Died 1982 (aged 87–88) Medgidia, Constanța County, Socialist Republic of Romania
Nationality Tatar
Occupation(s) Poet, schoolteacher, linguist
Known for He authored the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.

Yusuf Isa Halim (also transliterated in Romanian as Iusuf Isa Halim; Romanian pronunciation: [juˈsuf iˈsa haˈlim]) (1894–1982) was a Dobrujan-born Tatar poet, schoolteacher and linguist known for authoring the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.[1][2][3]

Yusuf Isa was born in 1894 in Bílbíl, today officially known as Ciocârlia, a Nogai village situated in the Tatar countryside west of Mangalia, in Dobruja. He graduated in 1915 from the Medrese of Medğidiye/Medgidia and he served as a schoolteacher in Malşuwa/Abrud, Kavarna, Pazarjik, Bogaz-Kóy (Cernavodă). In 1930 he published in Pazarjik, now Dobrich in Bulgaria, the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ a b Ekrem 1994.
  2. ^ a b Gârlan 2005.
  3. ^ a b Munteanu n.d.