parav

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian պառավ (paṙav, “old woman”).

Noun

parav f

1. an Armenian old woman; an Armenian nurse

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պառաւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 29a
• Farqînî, Zana (2005) “parav”, in Ferhenga Kurdî-Tirkî / Türkçe-Kürtçe Sözlük [Kurdish–Turkish Dictionary], 2nd edition, Istanbul: Kurdish Institute of Istanbul, page 1342b
• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 70
• Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “parav”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.2)‎^[1] (in Russian), edited by Ž. S. Musaeljan and I. I. Cukerman from the author's manuscript written during his 1911–1912 Moks expedition, Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 132a