çol

See also: Appendix:Variations of "col"

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing; compare Turkish çöl, Azerbaijani çöl. Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čöl (“steppe, desert”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃoːl/

Noun

Central Kurdish چۆڵ (çoll)
Southern Kurdish چووڵ (çûll)
Laki چووڵ (çûll)

çol f

  1. desert, wilderness, prairie, steppe
  2. pasture
  3. mountain

Derived terms

  • çolî
  • çolistan

References

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “çol”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 116
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