باوک

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Cognate with Southern Kurdish باوگ (bawg), Northern Kurdish bavik, bav; compare dialectal باو (baw). Ultimately onomatopoeic with a diminutive suffix. This variation with the diminutive was fixed in many Kurdish languages, paired with دایک (dayk).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baːu̯k/

Noun

باوک (bawk)

father