bîd

See also: bid, BID, bíd, bið, and -bid

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بید (bid), because of the preserved post-vocalic occlusive, as opposed to bî, which is inherited.

Noun

bîd

1. willow

Synonyms

• bî

References

• Kurdojev, K. K. (1960) “bîd”, in Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 89a
• Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 197–198