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Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit दुःख (duḥkha).[1][2][3]
Noun
dukh f (nominative plural dukha)
- pain[1][2][3][4]
- ache[4]
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “duḥkhá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 365
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “dukh”, 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 79b
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yaron Matras (2002) Romani: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 27, 35
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e dukh, -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, page 135a