きらま【慶良間】 : kirama | define meaning

Historical Ryukyuan attestations

• Vocabulary of the language spoken at the Great Loo-Choo Island, in the Japan Sea (1818), by Herbert John Clifford, records "The high distant islands seen from Napa. A'makírreema".
• Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions (1831), by Frederick William Beechey, records "The groups of islands seen in the distance to the westward of Loo Choo are called by the natives Kirrama and Agoo-gnee. Kirrama consists of four islands, Zammamee, Accar, Ghirooma, and Toocastchee, of which all but the last are very small".