çol

See also: Appendix:Variations of "col"

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing; compare Turkish çöl, Azerbaijani çöl. Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čöl (“steppe, desert”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoːl/

Noun

Central Kurdish	چۆڵ (çoll)
Southern Kurdish	چووڵ (çûll)
Laki	چووڵ (çûll)

çol f

1. desert, wilderness, prairie, steppe
2. pasture
3. mountain

Derived terms

• çolî
• çolistan

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “çol”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 116