pirûd

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Northern Kurdish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Armenian բրուտ (brut, potter), from Hittite 𒁍𒊒𒌓 (/⁠purut⁠/, mud). Borrowed from a Western Armenian dialect.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

pirûd m or f

  1. potter

References[edit]

  • Greppin, John A. C. (1991) “The Survival of Ancient Anatolian and Mesopotamian Vocabulary Until the Present”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies[1], volume 50, number 3, pages 203–207
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “pirûd”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[2], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 458