evîn

Compare hevîn (“love; to be loved”), evandin, evistin (“to love”); several possibilities exist:

1. From Proto-Indo-Iranian *van- (“love”). Compare Old Armenian հաւան (hawan), an Iranic borrowing. Akin to Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬁 (vantā) and Sanskrit वनित (vanita), from Proto-Indo-European *wenH- (“to love”). This form might have been from a *ham-vā̆na, from *hamhah (“each other, one another”) + *vān- (“to love”); compare Middle Persian *havvān which is reconstructed from the Old Armenian loan.
2. From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háwati, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Akin to Sanskrit अवति (avati) and Avestan 𐬀𐬬𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (avaⁱti, “to help, guard”). This is a lesser possibility since the sense in Indo-Iranic is not close.
3. Cognate with Middle Persian (abāyistan), Persian بایستن (“to be necessary”), which is equivalent to Kurdish (pê) vêyîn / پێ ویستن (pê wîstin). Normally the initial /a-/ sounds in Middle Iranic are lost in New Iranic, but this word (/⁠abāy⁠/) seems to have preserved it well into New Iranic for a while (see the Classical Persian variations of با). Perhaps from *hubay-, this verb with the *Hhu- (“good”) prefix, compare Central Kurdish خۆش ویستن (xoş wîstin, “love; lit. "to will nice, to want good"”).

This word does not exist in other Kurdish languages, Central Kurdish ئەوین (ewîn) is a loan from Northern Kurdish. A conflation with Arabic حب is also possible (as Hasanpoor suggests as the origin, which comes with phonetic problems), but the origin is most likely Kurdish and that Arabic root has been loaned into Northern Kurdish as hebandin already.

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈviːn/, /ɘˈviːn/, /ˈviːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

evîn f (Arabic spelling ئەڤين)

1. love

• evîndar

• → Central Kurdish: ئەوین (ewîn)