lawaz
Northern Kurdish
Alternative forms
- lewaz, levaz – Moks[1]
Etymology
Cognate with Gurani لاواز (lāwāz), لاۋاز (lāʋāz, “thin, lean”) and Gāvkošak [Term?] (lävez, “weak; poor”). Note also Persian لاغر (lâğar).
Adjective
lawaz[2]
| Northern Kurdish | lawaz |
|---|---|
| Central Kurdish | لاواز (lawaz) |
| Southern Kurdish | لاواز (lawaz) |
- thin, slim, slender, lean; puny, undersized; emaciated (from hunger or disease), skin and bones
- weak
- lawaz kirin ― to make someone lose weight; to weaken
- lean (of meat)
Descendants
- → Armenian: լավազ (lavaz)
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܵܘܵܙܵܐ (lāwāzā)
References
- Orbeli, I. A. (2002), “lewaz, levaz”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.2) (in Russian), edited by Ž. S. Musaeljan and I. I. Cukerman from the author's manuscript written during his 1911–1912 Moks expedition, Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, pages 113–114
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “lawaz”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 346ab