tenûr
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic تنّور (tannūr). Cognate with English tandoor, Hebrew תנור (tanúr), all ultimately from Akkadian 𒋾𒂟 (tinūru), meaning (clay) oven. According to the Dehkhoda Dictionary, the Akkadian word consists of the parts tin meaning "mud" and nuro/nura meaning "fire" and is mentioned as early as in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛˈnuːɾ/
Noun
tenûr f
- oven
- Synonym: tendûr
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “tenûr”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press