tixûb

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Aramaic תְּחוּם (təḥūm, “border, limit”) or Classical Syriac ܬܚܘܡܐ. Compare Arabic تُخْم (tuḵm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪˈxuːb/

Noun

Central Kurdish	تخووب (txûb)

tixûb m or f (Arabic spelling تخووب)

1. border, limit, boundary

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “tixûb”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 623