بەرخ

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Cognate with Northern Kurdish berx / бәрх (berx), Southern Kurdish وەرک‎ (wark). Inherited from Proto-Iranian *vara-ka- and related to Persian بره‎ (barra); see there for more. The x instead of expected k is problematic.

Noun

بەرخ (berx)

  1. lamb (young sheep)

References
  • Kurdojev, K. K.; Jusupova, Z. A. (1983), “بەرخ”, in Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ (sorani) [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary (Sorani)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 69a
  • Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879), “برخ”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 43b
  • Cabolov, R. L. (2001), “barx”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 126–127
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “գառն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 519b
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