Central Kurdish edit

Etymology edit

A Turkic borrowing. Compare Azerbaijani tük and Turkish tüy.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

Northern Kurdish tûk
Southern Kurdish تۊک (tük)
Laki تۊک (tük)

تووک (tûk)

  1. hair; fur; down

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • îbrahîmpûr, muḧemedteqî (2008) “تووک”, in ferhengî kurdî-înglîzî [Kurdish–English Dictionary], Tehran: suha, page 233
  • Thackston, W. M. (2006) “tûk”, in Sorani Kurdish: A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings, Lecture Notes, Iranian Studies, Harvard University, page 234
  • Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “tûk”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 150
  • McCarus, E. N. (1958) “túk”, in A Kurdish Grammar: Descriptive Analysis of the Kurdish of Sulaimaniya, Iraq, New York: American Council of Learned Societies Program in Oriental Languages, Publications Series B-Aids-Number 10, page 136
  • Qazzaz, Shafiq (2000) “تووک”, in The Sharezoor Kurdish–English dictionary, Erbil: Aras Press and Publishers, page 161
  • Kurdojev, K. K., Jusupova, Z. A. (1983) “تووک”, in Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ (sorani) [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary (Sorani)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 148