şan

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Northern Kurdish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks (honey), see also Sanskrit कञ्चन (kañcana), Old English hunig.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

şan f

  1. honeycomb

References[edit]

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “şan”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 568