milîs

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From French milice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈliːs/

Noun

milîs m (Arabic spelling مليس)

1. village guard, militia

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “milîs”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 387