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Romani
Etymology
bakro (“sheep”) + -i (“feminine suffix”).
Noun
bakri f (accusative bakrǎ, nominative plural bakrǎ, accusative plural bakrěn)
- female equivalent of bakro: ewe[1][2][3]
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bárkara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 517
- ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “bakrí”, 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 18a
- ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e bakr/i, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, 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, page 71b