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