şebeq

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic شفق (šafaq). Compare Turkish şafak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛˈbɛq/

Noun

şebeq f

1. dawn, daybreak

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “şebeq”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 571