پاراو

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Northern Kurdish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Armenian պառաւ (paṙaw, old woman).

Noun[edit]

پاراو (paraw?

  1. old woman; an Armenian nurse

References[edit]

  • Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “պառաւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Akin to Old Armenian պառաւ (paṙaw), an Iranian borrowing. Compare Bandar Abbasi dialect پرو (parow, heifer).

Noun[edit]

پاراو (pârâv)

  1. old woman

References[edit]