rukh

English

Noun

rukh (plural rukhs)

  1. Alternative form of roc (large bird)

Anagrams

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit đ‘€­đ‘€Œđ‘€“đ‘†đ‘€” (rukkha),[1][2] from Sanskrit à€°à„à€•à„à€· (rukáčŁa)[1] or à€”à„ƒà€•à„à€· (váč›káčŁa).[2]

Noun

rukh m (nominative plural rukha)

  1. tree[2][3]
    • 2005 August [2002], Ian F. Hancock, “Amari Čhib: Our language”, in We are the Romani people = Ame sam e Rromane dĆŸene, reprint edition (in English), University of Hertfordshire Press, →ISBN, page 143:
      Thus while many dialects have kept separate words for 'tree' and 'wood' (rukh and kaĆĄt), and for 'say' and 'tell' (phen- and phuker-), the words for 'tree' and 'tell' have been lost in the Vlax dialects, which have now generalized kaĆĄt and phen- respectively for both words.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*rukáčŁa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 622
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “ruk”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch fĂŒr den sĂŒdosteuropĂ€ischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 246b
  3. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o rukhÂčÂČ, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda RĂ©zmƱves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = ElsƑ rromani nyelvƱ eurĂłpai szĂłtĂĄram : cigĂĄny, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, nĂ©met, ukrĂĄn, romĂĄn, horvĂĄt, szlovĂĄk, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: FƑvĂĄrosi OnkormĂĄnyzat CigĂĄny HĂĄz--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 310b-311a
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