dawî

See also: dawi

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Akin to Southern Kurdish, Central Kurdish and Gurani دواهی (dwahî), Zazaki dimaîn. Unless daw is not a rebracketing from dawî, from earlier *dihawî < *diwahî, from dû (“tail, end; after”) +‎ -ahî (“-ity, -ness”), which is preserved in Southern dialects as dûmahî. In some dialects displaced by axirî or xilasî.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

dawî f

  1. end

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • bi dawî hatin
  • bi dawî anîn ("to end")
  • bi dawî bûn
  • bi dawî kirin ("to finish")
  • dawîn ("last, final")
  • dawînî ("finally")
  • dawiya dawîn ("ultimate; ultimately")
  • koça dawîn
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.