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Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic خراب (ḵarāb, “ruined, wrecked”).
Adjective
xirab (comparative xirabtir, superlative xirabtirîn, Arabic spelling خراب)
- bad
- ruined, destroyed
- Synonym: nebaş
Derived terms
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “xirab”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 661