منداڵ

Central Kurdish

Alternative forms

• مندار (mindar), مناڵ (minall)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنَال (manāl, “attainment”).

Noun

منداڵ (mindall)

1. child, kid

References

• Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 659
• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “mindal”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 388a
• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) “مندار”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 406b, mistakenly derives from Armenian մանդր (mandr), a dialectal form մանր (manr)
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մանր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 257b, follows Justi