êrês

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Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian երեց (erecʻ, priest).

Noun

êrês m

  1. monk, priest

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “երէց”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 53b
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “êris”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume I, London: Transnational Press, page 233ab
  • Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) “ایریس”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 29b