Chuvash

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *bïrak- (to let; to abandon; to send; to throw).

Verb

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пӑрах (părah)

  1. to throw
  2. to leave, to break up with
  3. to quit (a job or a habit)
  4. to lay
  5. to set, to plant (i.e. potatoes in the furrow)
  6. to shed, to cast (skin, fur, feathers), to moult
  7. to have a miscarriage
  8. to lower, reduce (the price of something)

Further reading

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  • пӑрах”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.