kêrr

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

Etymology

According to Asatrian, an obvious lexical loan from Armenian կեռ (keṙ).[1]

Adjective

kêrr[2]

  1. crooked[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Abbasian, Alikhan, Voskanian, Vardan (1994) “A Kurdish Philosophy of Death: A Kurdish Tale from Armenia”, in Acta Kurdica‎[1], volume 1, page 145
  2. ^ Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “kêr̄ II”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎[2], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 318b
  3. ^ Kurdojev, K. K. (1960) “kêr III”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Государственное издательство иностранных и национальных словарей, page 437b
  4. ^ Bakajev, Č. X. (1957) “кер’”, in I. A. Orbeli, editor, Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 188b

Further reading

  • Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 516
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