şan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "san"

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks (“honey”), see also Sanskrit कञ्चन (kañcana), Old English hunig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑːn/

Noun

şan f

1. honeycomb

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “şan”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 568