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xwarin

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See also: Xwarîn

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *hwarta-, from *hwar- (to eat, consume), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *suar-,[1] further origin unknown, with no obvious Indo-European cognates outside of Iranian.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /xʷɑːˈɾɪn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: xwa‧rin

Verb

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xwarin present stem: -xw-

  1. eat
  2. spend
    Dused dolar hebûn, hemî di rojekê de xwarin.
    There was two hundred dollars, it was all spent in a day.

Noun

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xwarin f

  1. eating
  2. food

Declension

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Declension of xwarin
definite feminine gender
case singular plural
nominative xwarin xwarin
construct xwarina xwarinên
oblique xwarinê xwarinan
demonstrative oblique xwarinê wan xwarinan
vocative xwarinê xwarinino
indefinite feminine gender
case singular plural
nominative xwarinek xwarinin
construct xwarineke xwarinine
oblique xwarinekê xwarininan

References

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  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus; Jakob, Anthony; Palmér, Axel I.; van Sluis, Paulus; Wigman, Andrew (2022), “Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages”, in PLOS ONE, volume 17, number 10, →DOI, page 22