Zemire (also Zamire, Zamura) is the rain-and-fertility goddess of the old Kumyk pantheon, imagined as a tall, full-figured and powerful woman. Her name survives above all in the drought-time rite Zemire, performed by girls who processed through the village carrying a decorated effigy and singing for the rain to fall. Sources group her with the other water-element powers Sütqatın, Suvanası and Gudurbay, and the theonym Murgurek is reported as a synonym linking Zemire with Suvanası. Scholars regard her as one of the clearest survivals of a pre-Islamic Turkic fertility cult among the Kumyks.