telef

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic تلف (talaf, “destruction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈlɛf/

Noun

telef f (Arabic spelling تەلەف)

1. destruction, loss, perdition

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “telef”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 602