Jump to content

ćhuri

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: churi, čhuri, and ଛୁରୀ

Romani

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kes-
Proto-Indo-European *ksew-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšurás
Sanskrit क्षु॒र (kṣurá)
Prakrit 𑀙𑀼𑀭𑀻 (churī)
Romani ćhuri

    Inherited from Prakrit 𑀙𑀼𑀭𑀻 (churī), from Sanskrit क्षु॒र (kṣurá), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšurás, from Proto-Indo-European *ksew- + *-rós.[1][2]

    Noun

    [edit]

    ćhuri f (nominative plural ćhurǎ)

    1. (International Standard) knife[2][3]

    Descendants

    [edit]
    • Tavringer Romani: tjuro, tjuring
    • Romanian: șuriu
    • French: surin
    • Traveller Norwegian: kjuring

    References

    [edit]
    1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “kṣurá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 194
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “čhurí”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 60ab
    3. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009), “i/e ćhur/i, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn- = i/e ćhurik, -a- ʒ. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 117b-118a
    Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ćhuri&oldid=88329286"