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Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit घोटक (ghoṭaka, “horse”), from घोट (ghoṭa). But compare Middle Armenian քուռակ (kʻuṙak, “foal”).[1]
Noun
khuro m (accusative khures, nominative plural khure, accusative plural khuren)
- foal, colt
References
- ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “khuró”, 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 160ab
Further reading
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ghōṭa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 244
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o khur/o, -es m. -e, -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, pages 216b-217a