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Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic خلق. Cognate with Turkish halk, Uyghur خەلق (xelq).
Pronunciation
Noun
| Central Kurdish
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خەڵک (xellk)
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xelq m (Arabic spelling خەلق)
- people, nation, folk
- inhabitants, population, tribe
- others, other people who are not relatives, strangers
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “xelq”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 653