zêw

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic ضيف (ḍayf, “guest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zeːw/

Noun

zêw f (Arabic spelling زێو)

1. festival, picnic held once a year at a shrine

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “zêw”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 690