kher
See also: Kher, khèr, and খেৰ
Romani
kher
Alternative forms
- khër (International Standard)
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀖𑀭 (ghara),[1] from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀕𑀭𑁆𑀳 (*garha), from Sanskrit गृह (gṛha, “house, home”).[1] Cognate with Hindi घर (ghar).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰer/, /kʰər/
Noun
kher m inan (nominative plural khera)
- house[1][2][3][4]
Derived terms
- kheral
- khere
- kherorro
- kherutno
Descendants
- Kalo Finnish Romani: tšeer
References
- Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “kher”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 158a
- Milena Hübschmannová (February 2002), “Kher”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database, Prague, archived from the original on 2021-02-17, retrieved 25 August 2021
- Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o kher, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 213b
- Viktor Elšík (2000), “Romani nominal paradigms: Their structure, diversity, and development”, in Viktor Elšík; Yaron Matras, editors, Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 11, →ISBN