çêrt

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• ç’îrt

Etymology

From Armenian ծերտ (cert), ծիրտ (cirt).

Noun

ç’êrt f

1. bird droppings

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “ծիրտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 460b
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “çêrt”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume I, London: Transnational Press, page 135a
• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 128