briśind

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Romani

briśind

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit *𑀯𑀭𑀺𑀱𑀦𑁆𑀢 (*variṣanta), *𑀯𑀭𑀺𑀲𑀦𑁆𑀢 (*varisanta), from Sanskrit वर्षति (varṣati, to rain).

Noun

briśind m (nominative plural briśinda)

  1. (International Standard) rain

Derived terms

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “várṣati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 665
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “bršínd”, 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 36a
  3. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o briśind, -es- m. -a, -en- = o brśind, -es- m. -a, -en- = o berśind, -es- m. -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, page 92b
  4. ^ Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 92