gopal

See also: Gopal

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• kopal

Etymology

Akin to Persian گوپال (gupâl). See it for more.

Noun

Central Kurdish	گۆپاڵ (gopall)

gopal m

1. stick, club, cudgel, staff

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913) “կոպալ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 593b
• Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 393, 520
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “gopal”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series), London: Transnational Press, pages 275–276
• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 345a