seyîs

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈjiːs/

Noun

seyîs m (Arabic spelling سەییس)

1. hostler, groom, stableman

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “seyîs”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 545