evîn

See also: evin, Evin, and Evîn

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare hevîn (“love; to be loved”), evandin, evistin (“to love”); several possibilities exist:

1. From Proto-Indo-Iranian *van- (“love”). Compare Old Armenian հաւան (hawan), an Iranic borrowing. Akin to Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬁 (vantā) and Sanskrit वनित (vanita), from Proto-Indo-European *wenH- (“to love”). This form might have been from a *ham-vā̆na, from *hamhah (“each other, one another”) + *vān- (“to love”); compare Middle Persian *havvān which is reconstructed from the Old Armenian loan.
2. From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háwati, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Akin to Sanskrit अवति (avati) and Avestan 𐬀𐬬𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (avaⁱti, “to help, guard”). This is a lesser possibility since the sense in Indo-Iranic is not close.
3. Cognate with Middle Persian [script needed] (abāyistan), Persian بایستن (“to be necessary”), which is equivalent to Kurdish (pê) vêyîn / پێ ویستن (pê wîstin). Normally the initial /a-/ sounds in Middle Iranic are lost in New Iranic, but this word [Term?] (/⁠abāy⁠/) seems to have preserved it well into New Iranic for a while (see the Classical Persian variations of با). Perhaps from *hubay-, this verb with the *Hhu- (“good”) prefix, compare Central Kurdish خۆش ویستن (xoş wîstin, “love; lit. "to will nice, to want good"”).

This word does not exist in other Kurdish languages, Central Kurdish ئەوین (ewîn) is a loan from Northern Kurdish. A conflation with Arabic حب is also possible (as Hasanpoor suggests as the origin, which comes with phonetic problems), but the origin is most likely Kurdish and that Arabic root has been loaned into Northern Kurdish as hebandin already.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈviːn/, /ɘˈviːn/, /ˈviːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

evîn f (Arabic spelling ئەڤين)

1. love

Declension

Declension of evîn

Definite feminine gender
Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	evîn	evîn
Construct	evîna	evînên
Oblique	evînê	evînan
Demonstrative oblique	wê evînê	wan evînan
Vocative	evînê	evînino
Indefinite feminine gender
Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	evînek	evînin
Construct	evîneke	evînine
Oblique	evînekê	evîninan

Derived terms

• evîndar

Descendants

• → Central Kurdish: ئەوین (ewîn)