belengaz
Northern Kurdish
Alternative forms
- belengoz – Moks[1]
- belingaz
Etymology
From earlier *bilindgaz(î), from bilind (“high”) + gazî (“shout, yell”).
Adjective
belengaz[2]
- poor, wretched, miserable, unhappy
Derived terms
- belengazî
Descendants
- → Armenian: բլնգազ (blngaz), բլնգյազ (blngyaz), բլնգած (blngac), բլնգյած (blngyac)
- → Turkish: belengaz
References
- Orbeli, I. A. (2002), “belengoz”, 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, page 36b
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “belengaz”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 33a
Further reading
- Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 55b