hirî

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Hwŕ̥HnaH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwŕ̥HnaH, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Compare Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ūrṇā), Armenian գեղմ (geġm), Russian волна (volna), English wool, German Wolle, Ancient Greek λῆνος (lênos), Latin lāna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪˈɾiː/

Noun

hirî f (Arabic spelling هري)

1. wool

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “hirî”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 261