heyşet

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Central Kurdish هەیشەت (heyşet, “dense crowd”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛjˈʃɛt/

Noun

heyşet f (Arabic spelling هەیشەت)

densely populated settlement, population center, town, city

References

Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “heyşet”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 248