pincar

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian pinzari, from Latin pensāre. Doublet of peshoj (“to weigh, scale”), borrowed directly from Latin.

Noun

pincar

1. to think

Synonyms

• mendoj

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• پنجار (pincar), پِنجار (pincar)
• п’ьнщар’ (p’incarr)
• pencar (dialectal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian բանջար (banǰar).

Noun

pincar f

1. greens, edible green herbs
2. vegetable

Derived terms

• pincarçîn
• pincarvan

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բանջար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 409ab
• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 82b
• Kurdojev, K. K. (1960) “pincar”, in Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 615b
• Rhea, Samuel A. (1872–1880) “Brief Grammar and Vocabulary of the Kurdish Language of the Hakari District”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 10, page 148b
• Siabandov, S., Čʻačʻan, A. (1957) “բանջար”, in Hay-kʻrderen baṙaran [Armenian–Kurdish Dictionary], Yerevan: State Press of Armenia (HayPetHrat), page 62b
• Siabandov, S., Čʻačʻan, A. (1957) “կանաչի”, in Hay-kʻrderen baṙaran [Armenian–Kurdish Dictionary], Yerevan: State Press of Armenia (HayPetHrat), page 171a