Dim

Dim is a girl's baby name of Bashkir origin, a Bashkir masculine name also used as a feminine name — from the Turkic tradition of the Bashkir people of the Ural region of Russia. The Bashkirs are a Turkic people with a rich nomadic heritage, and their naming tradition draws on Turkic, Arabic, and Russian linguistic influences. As a given name, Dim carries the heritage of this distinctive Central Asian-European crossroads culture.

Dim carries the Bashkir heritage of the Ural Mountains' Turkic people — one of Russia's indigenous nationalities whose culture has maintained its distinct identity through centuries of Russian rule, whose language and traditions represent the Eastern edge of European nomadic heritage and the Northwestern edge of Central Asian Turkic culture.