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Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Borrowed from Armenian երեց (erecʻ, “priest”).
Noun
êrês m
- 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