tenûr

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic تنّور‎ (tannūr). Cognate with English tandoor, Hebrew תנור‎ (tanúr), all ultimately from Akkadian 𒋾𒂟 (tinūru), meaning (clay) oven. According to the Dehkhoda Dictionary, the Akkadian word consists of the parts tin meaning "mud" and nuro/nura meaning "fire" and is mentioned as early as in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɛˈnuːɾ/
tenûr

Noun

tenûr f

  1. oven
    Synonym: tendûr

References
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “tenûr”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press
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