hewl

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic حاول (ḥāwala).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛwl/

Noun

hewl f (Arabic spelling هەول)

1. attempt, try, effort, endeavor

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “hewl”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 247