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Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀙𑀼𑀭𑀻 (churī),[1][2] from Sanskrit क्षुरी (kṣurī, “knife, dagger”).[1][2]
Noun
ćhuri f (nominative plural ćhurǎ)
- (International Standard) knife[2][3]
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kṣurá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 194
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čhurí”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 60ab
- ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e ćhur/i, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn- = i/e ćhurik, -a- ʒ. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 117b-118a