marabêt

Northern Kurdish

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from مرابط according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Northern Kurdish or recent spelling standards of the language.

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian մարապետ (marapet), a dialectal form of մայրապետ (mayrapet).

Noun

marabêt

  1. nun

References

  • Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879), “مرابط”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 392b derives from Arabic مُرَابِط (murābiṭ) with a question mark
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977), “մայր”, 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 247ab