پاراو

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Old Armenian պառաւ (paṙaw, “old woman”).

Noun

پاراو (paraw) ?

  1. old woman; an Armenian nurse

References
  • Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “պառաւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

Persian

Etymology

Akin to Old Armenian պառաւ (paṙaw), an Iranian borrowing. Compare Bandar Abbasi dialect پرو‎ (parow, “heifer”).

Noun

پاراو • (pârâv)

  1. old woman

References
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