pûngal

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• pingal

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian բունկալ (bunkal).

Noun

pûngal f

1. the place where the hen hatches her chicks; hen nest

Related terms

• pîn

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բոյն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 469a
• Justi, Ferdinand (1878) Les noms d'animaux en Kurde‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie nationale, page 22
• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) “پنغال”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 83a
• Kurdojev, K. K. (1960) “pûngal”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Государственное издательство иностранных и национальных словарей, page 624a