zarok

See also: zárok

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms
  • zarrok

Etymology

Unknown. Cabolov compares with Arabic ذُرِّيَّة‎ (ḏurriyya, “progeny”), ذَرارِي‎ (ḏarārī, “children”), which seems possible, though not fully convincing since the Arabic words are of moderate frequence and the stem ḏarr- (zarr-) would have to be an independent backformation in Kurdish. Compare, however, the Kurdish borrowing zurryet (“progeny”) from ذُرِّيَّة‎ (ḏurriyya). Other possibilities include a (vague) derivation from the stem of zan (“to bear; to be born”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zɑːˈroːk/

Noun

zarok ?

  1. child

References
  • Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 519
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