werz
Appearance
Northern Kurdish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Iranian *warj-. Compare Classical Syriac ܒܪܙܐ (barzāʾ, “sown field”), Middle Persian 𐫇𐫡𐫝 (wrc /warz/), Persian برز (barz, “sown field”), Persian کشاورز, Sogdian 𐫇𐫡𐫉 (wrz /warz/, “miracle, magic”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]werz m (Arabic spelling وەرز)
References
[edit]- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “werz”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 643