Rum

Rûm

... Romans", in Arabic الرُّومُ ar-Rūm, Persian/Turkish Rum, from Middle Persian Hrom) is a generic term used at different times in Turkey and the Muslim world to refer to ...

Famous quotes containing the word rum:

    “Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat—
    And there isn’t any call for me to shout it:
    For he will do
    As he do do
    And there’s no doing anything about it!”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “There’s nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
    As rum and true religion.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)