xars

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• hars

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian հարս (hars).

Noun

xars f

1. Armenian bride
2. (Moks) married Armenian woman (regardless of age)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հարսն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 62b
• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) “خارز”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 148
• Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “xars”, 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 187a