Yusuf Isa Halim

Yusuf Isa Halim
Iusuf Isa Halim
Born 1894
Bílbíl, today Ciocârlia, Constanța County, Romania
Died 1982
Medgidia
Nationality Tatar
Occupation Poet, schoolteacher, linguist
Known for He authored the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.
Religion Muslim

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

Biography

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]

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