xilwet
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Compare Ottoman Turkish خلوت (halvet, “solitude; hermitage; privacy”), Persian خلوت (xalvat, “uncrowded, alone”), Arabic خَلْوَة (ḵalwa, “solitude, privacy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xɪlˈwɛt/
Noun
xilwet f
- monastery
- c. 1620, Feqiyê Teyran, a poem
- Nezer bi ya dêm der diket
Dîn bû di nîva xelwetê
Ji xelwetê ew dîn dibû- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- c. 1620, Feqiyê Teyran, a poem