mişag

mişag

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian մշակ (mšak)․[1][2][3]

Noun

mişag m[4][1]

1. farmhand, day worker

References

1. Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879), “مشاق”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 399b
2. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մշակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 335b
3. Cabolov, R. L. (2001), “mišāk”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 669
4. Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “mişag”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 392