Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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From Turkish sıva, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *sïba- (to smear).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sewax f (Arabic spelling سەواج)

  1. plaster

References

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  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “sewax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 5