kevranto

See also: kevrantó

Ladino

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish quebranto (sorrow).

Noun

kevranto m (Hebrew spelling קיב׳ראנטו)[1]

  1. despair
    • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur[1], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 10:
      Delantre de ti io mi orgolio abato
      I mi corason lo razgo con kevranto¹)
      I suppress my pride before you, and my heart tears it with despair.
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kevranto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of kevrantar
  2. third-person singular preterite indicative of kevrantar

References

  1. ^ kevranto”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim