Wiktionary:About Northern Kurdish

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Script

Northern Kurdish is normally written in the Latin script. Arabic script equivalents may be supplied in headword templates use |ar=.

Entry Layout Explained

This section is an extrapolation of WT:ELE to fit the Northern Kurdish language.

English-Northern Kurdish Translations

Although many efforts have been made to standardize Kurdish, the use of local varieties is still dominant to any proposed standard form. For that matter, the Kurdish translation should indicate the variety. Example:

*Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t|ckb|ڕۆژ}}
*: Northern Kurdish: {{t|kmr|roj}}

This will appear as:

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕۆژ‎ (roj)

  Northern Kurdish: roj

Make sure you adhere to the use of the {{t}} template when entering English-Northern Kurdish translations.

Etymology

Compounds and affixes

The format for compound words and affixes conforms to WT:ETY, but Northern Kurdish has some morphological features that need attention.

Suffixes

To get suffixed words in the appropriate categories, such as [[Category:Northern Kurdish words suffixed with -tî]] contributors can use the template {{suffix|kmr}}.

{{suffix|kmr|heval|tî}}

heval +‎ -tî

Affixes

To get affixed words in the appropriate categories, such as [[Category:Northern Kurdish words prefixed with bê-]] contributors can use the template {{prefix|kmr}}.

{{prefix|kmr|bê|diran}}

Which gives:
bê- +‎ diran

Compounds

To get compound words into [[Category:Northern Kurdish compound words]] contributors can use the template {{compound|kmr}}.

{{compound|kmr|ziman|malbat|t1=language|t2=family}}

Which gives:
ziman (“language”) +‎ malbat (“family”)

Verbs

For {{kmr-verb}}.

code	result
{{kmr-verb}}	dîtin (third-person singular simple present dibîne, simple past dît

Adjectives

This template shows the adjective in bold (optionally linking its components) and its comparative and superlative inflections, if any.

code	result
{{kmr-adj}}	ciwan (comparative ciwantir, superlative ciwantirîn)
{{kmr-adj|-}}	annual (not comparable)
{{kmr-adj|?}}	disliked

Other Northern Kurdish aids

• Category:Northern Kurdish templates
  • Category:Northern Kurdish inflection-table templates
• Wiktionary:Requested entries (Northern Kurdish)
• Category:Requests (Northern Kurdish)
• Northern Kurdish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Northern Kurdish grammar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia