kereng

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *kreŋ³ (“bone”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ɡ-r(w/j)a(ŋ/k) (“bone; skeleton”). Cognate with Garo greng.

• IPA^(key): /kereŋ/

kereng (Bengali script কেরেং)

1. bone

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Compare Persian کنگر, Armenian կանկառ (kankaṙ), Ancient Greek κινάρα (kinára).

• IPA^(key): /kɛˈɾɛŋɡ/

kereng m or f

1. artichoke thistle, cardoon, Cynara cardunculus

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “kereng”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 308