See also: Bakro

Romani

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit बर्कर (bárkara). Cognate with Hindi बकरा (bakrā), બકરો (bakro), Marwari बकरो (bakro), and Sindhi ٻَڪِرو (ḇakiro).

Noun

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bakro m (accusative bakres, nominative plural bakre, accusative plural bakren)

  1. sheep
  2. ram

Derived terms

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References

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  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bárkara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 517
  • Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “bakró”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 18
  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o bakr/o, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 71