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Central Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *jr̥Hanyam (compare Persian زر (zar) and Baluchi زر (zar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰr̥Hanyam (compare Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃enyom, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”). Compare Old Church Slavonic злато (zlato), Latvian zelts, English gold.
Pronunciation
Noun
زێڕ (zêrr)
- gold
- Synonym: ئاڵتوون (alltûn)
Derived terms
References
- îbrahîmpûr, muḧemedteqî (2008) “زێڕ”, in ferhengî kurdî-înglîzî [Kurdish–English Dictionary], Tehran: suha, page 572
- Qazzaz, Shafiq (2000) “زێڕ”, in The Sharezoor Kurdish–English dictionary, Erbil: Aras Press and Publishers, page 326
- Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “zêṟ”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 166